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Tifton is the county seat of Tift County in south-central Georgia, set on the coastal plain about sixty miles north of the Florida line.

The city was founded in 1872 by Henry Harding Tift, a marine engineer turned lumberman-entrepreneur, who built a sawmill town there and named it for his uncle, the Albany businessman and congressman Nelson Tift.

Tifton boomed after 1888, when the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway crossed the Brunswick and Western Railroad near Tift's mill, and the town was incorporated by the Georgia Legislature in 1890.

Tifton is known by the nickname 'The Friendly City.'

The 2020 U.S. census counted 17,045 people in Tifton, and Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put the city at about 6,753 households.

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, founded in 1908 as the Second District Agricultural and Mechanical School, has its main campus in Tifton.

The University of Georgia's Tifton Campus, grown out of the old Coastal Plain Experiment Station, makes the city a major center for agricultural research.

At the Tifton experiment station, scientist Glenn Burton helped develop the bermudagrasses that now cover golf courses, stadiums, and ball fields around the globe.

Southern Regional Technical College also operates a campus in Tifton, alongside ABAC and the University of Georgia.

The Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village, operated by ABAC, opened as the Agrirama on July 4, 1976, and preserves more than 35 historic structures across a 95-acre living-history site.