Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Marshallville, GA

Marshallville is a city in Macon County in central Georgia — the county, not the city of Macon, which lies in neighboring Bibb County.

Marshallville was founded in the 1820s, was incorporated as a town in 1854, and was incorporated as a city in 1953.

The 2020 census counted 1,048 residents in Marshallville, down from 1,448 in 2010; in the 2000 census the city had 1,335 people in 523 households.

Marshallville is famous as the birthplace of the Elberta peach: local grower Samuel H. Rumph planted cross-pollinated Chinese Clingstone seeds around 1870 and named the celebrated fruit for his wife, Elberta.

Samuel Rumph is considered the father of the Georgia peach industry, and the Elberta became the most widely planted peach variety ever introduced, grown in every peach-producing region of the world.

At the height of the peach boom, as many as 18 peach packing houses operated in and around Marshallville, and a single season once saw 450 carloads of peaches shipped from the town.

Rumph also invented a refrigerated peach-shipping method that revolutionized how fresh Southern produce reached distant markets.

Another Marshallville grower family contribution was the Belle of Georgia peach, introduced by Rumph's uncle Lewis A. Rumph from the same Chinese Cling seed line.

Many of Marshallville's stately homes were built by wealthy landowners during the fruit boom, and its diverse historic district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In the early 1930s residents planted five-mile floral corridors of some 3,000 camellias, 3,000 crape myrtles, and a million daffodils, and the town is still known for its crape myrtle and camellia-lined streets.