Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Musella, GA

Musella is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northern Crawford County in central Georgia, within the Macon metropolitan area.

Musella was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2020 U.S. census, which counted a population of 104 residents.

A post office called Musella was established in 1889, and according to tradition preserved in Kenneth Krakow's Georgia Place-Names, the community's name is an amalgamation of Mose and Ella, the names of two of its first settlers.

Musella first appeared on the Georgia map in 1895, when the Atlanta and Florida Railway named it as a flag stop after Crawford County residents resisted having the railroad routed through their county seat of Knoxville.

Farmers from the nearby settlement of Ceres migrated to Musella for its rail access, and the cotton gin at Ceres was even dismantled and moved about two miles to the new railroad community.

Musella is home to Dickey Farms, founded when Robert L. "Mr. Bob" Dickey planted his first peach trees there in 1897, beginning with 30 acres of the famous Elberta peach variety.

Dickey Farms operates Georgia's oldest continuously operating peach packinghouse, a long white building constructed in 1936 from lumber hewn from Dickey's own land beside the railroad tracks.

Robert L. Dickey was an agricultural innovator who installed Georgia's first brushing machine to remove peach fuzz and was one of the first producers to use a hydro-cooling system to slow the ripening of peaches bound for northern markets.

The C. F. Hays & Son general store, a traditional country store built in 1900 by Robert L. Dickey, is one of the oldest stores of its kind in Georgia still in operation.

Today Dickey Farms remains a working family peach operation and agritourism destination, and during the mid-May-to-August peach season the tiny community of Musella comes alive around the packinghouse.