Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Reidsville, GA

Reidsville is a small city in southeast Georgia and the county seat of Tattnall County.

Reidsville was founded about 1828, was designated the Tattnall County seat by the Georgia General Assembly in 1832, and was incorporated as a town in 1838 and as a city in 1905.

The city is named for Robert R. Reid, a judge who served as territorial governor of Florida.

The 2020 census counted 2,515 people in Reidsville, spread across about 7.7 square miles of southeast Georgia pine country.

The Tattnall County Courthouse in Reidsville, a Second Empire-style red brick building completed in 1901, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Georgia State Prison, one of Georgia's most storied maximum-security prisons, stood just outside Reidsville for decades before the state closed it in 2022; its prison cemetery holds more than 970 burials dating back to 1937.

Reidsville is remembered in civil rights history as the place where Lena Baker, the only woman ever executed in Georgia's electric chair, was put to death at the Georgia State Prison in 1945.

During World War II, Reidsville hosted a prisoner-of-war camp holding captured German soldiers, who worked on area farms.

Tattnall County itself was created on December 5, 1801, and named for Josiah Tattnall, a Revolutionary War soldier and Georgia governor; the county had 22,842 residents in 2020.

Tattnall County High School, home of the Battle Creek Warriors, is the county's only public high school and sits on Highway 23/57 between Reidsville and Glennville with a Reidsville address.