HAGAN IDEALLY POSITIONED FOR GROWTH
With plenty of prime commercial property and areas for residential growth, Hagan is emerging as a growth center in Evans County. A property tax rate of only 3 mills in the town is attractive to homeowners and new business development. Recent additions to the business community include Wiggins Florist, Wiggins Hardware, and C&B Heating and Air.
The city has also progressed toward the future while hanging onto its valuable past. A new city hall was dedicated in early 2003, and dubbed the Maretha Brown Municipal Building. Directly behind it stands a new children's park, named for long-time city employee, Maggie Lee Lewis.
Hagan City Hall
Janell Brown, JoAnne Crews Kitchens and Jean Crooke, left to right, are shown with the monument dedicating Hagan’s revamped and relocated children’s park to Maggie Mae Lewis.
HAGAN PROVIDES FOR RESIDENTS' RECREATION
Laid out on an entire city block, the Bradley Memorial Park is an attractive asset to the Hagan cityscape. Elected officials have also provided a city park behind the town hall, complete with playground equipment, for kids and their parents to enjoy.
Public and private interests have worked together to restore and maintain the historic G.W. DeLoach house which was built in the early 1890s by one of the town's first settlers.
Bradley Memorial Park
HAGAN WAS ONCE A PROSPEROUS LUMBER TOWN;
NAMED FOR CIVIL WAR WIDOW
Settlements along the route of the Savannah and Western Railroad began to prosper and become established as towns, when the right-of-way for the railroad's expansion east was secured in the area of what is now Hagan in the year 1889. Marshall A. Smith, who had married Susannah Hagan Brewton after the death of her husband from wounds he received in the Battle of Richmond in the Civil War, was given the opportunity to name the emerging town.
Smith chose 'Hagan' because it was his wife's maiden name. Susan Hagan was first the wife of Simon Brewton, son of Samuel Brewton, and grandson of Nathan Brewton an original settler.
At one time the Perkins Sawmill employed as many as 365 men. To attend to their medical needs, Dr. S.T. Ellis was hired to come to Hagan and the practice of taking 50 cents per month from each employee's wages was instituted.
Hagan suffered a severe economic setback following the depression of 1907 and the Perkins Sawmill was forced to close in 1910. Many of the mill workers left Hagan and the town's population and businesses began to decline. Today, with infrastructure improvements and a new transportation corridor, Hagan is poised for a new era for growth and prosperity.
Mayor, City of Hagan
• Vernon Owens
Phone: 912-739-3801
Mayor ProTempore
• Jeffery Wiggins
Council Members
• Clay Miller- District 1
• Ralph Bailey- District 1
• Jeffery Wiggins- District- 1
• Jimmy Mitchell- District- 2
• Maeretha Brown District- 2
MEETINGS: The regular meetings of the Hagan city council are conducted at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at Hagan City Hall.
CITY CLERK
• Brenda Conley
Phone: 912-739-3801
• Brooke Blocker - Administrative Asst.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
• Hagan Police Department
Phone: 912-739-3507
• Evans County Sheriff's Dept.
Phone: 912-739-1611
FIRE DEPARTMENT
• Hagan Volunteer Fire Department
Phone: 912-739-3507
• Claxton Volunteer Dept.
Phone: 912-739-3111
AMBULANCE:
• Emergency Medical Service
Phone: 912-739-1514
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