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National Mayhaw Festival
Colquitt, GA · Food & Drink
- When
- April 16–17, 2027
- Where
- Downtown Colquitt · Colquitt · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Colquitt has celebrated the tart wild mayhaw berry, harvested from swamps and riverbanks across southwest Georgia, with this festival for more than 40 years. The event centers on a jelly and preserves competition alongside an arts and crafts market on the town square. It runs on the third weekend of April.
The history within reach
- Swamp Gravysame spot
Georgia's officially designated folk life play stages true stories collected from Miller County residents at the Cotton Hall Theatre in downtown Colquitt.
- National Mayhaw Festivalsame spot
Colquitt has celebrated the tart wild mayhaw berry, harvested from swamps and riverbanks across southwest Georgia, with this festival for more than 40 years.
- Swamp Gravy at Colquitt0.3 mi
A town of two thousand losing its young people started collecting the stories its older residents told and staging them, cast entirely from people who live there, in a converted cotton warehouse.
- Jackie Robinson37 mi
Born on a sharecropped plantation outside Cairo, youngest of five.
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