Shellman

Shellman, established in 1883, is named for Major W.F. Shellman, a traffic manager for the Central of Georgia Railroad. The city was incorporated on April 5, 2012, and has a population of about 1,100 people.

NFL defensive player Thomas Davis and former NBA star Donnell Harvey grew up in Shellman. On of Shellman's claims to fame is that Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person at 115 years of age when she died September 11, 2009, in Los Angeles, was born in Shellman. The husband half of the prolific songwriting team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, Diadourius Boudleaux Bryant, was born in Shellman in 1920.

The 1893 Central of Georgia depot at Shellman was rehabilitated in the mid-1990s for use as a community center.