City Directories and History: The old Lanford Community was a thriving area in the late 19th and early 20th century and boasted of several stores and number of homes and two or more churches. With the demise of cotton farming and better transportation following WWII, the community began crumbling and remains only a shell of what once was so proudly found at the Lanford Community.
The Sanborn Map of Lanford in 1933 shows a busy rural destination which was greatly altered by the depression and WWII. On the 1933 Sanborn map note the depot, stores, and peach shed all are located at the railroad crossing at Lanford.
This is a page full of misc. historic sites in the general area of Lanford and railroad depot history.
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