Omaha, Georgia

Omaha is an unincorporated community in Stewart County, Georgia, United States.

Geography

Omaha is located in the northwest corner of Stewart County near the juncture of the Chattahoochee River and Hannahatchee Creek.[1]

Florence Marina State Park is located outside of Omaha. The Roods Landing Site is located south of Omaha.

History

Omaha was founded in the 1891 when the railroad arrived.[2]

Fitzgerald Cemetery is located about a mile outside of town.[3]

The cathouse scene of The Long Riders, starring Dennis and Randy Quaid, and the Carradines, was filmed in the Lee house which was located next to the Fitzgerald Cemetery until it was torn down due to disrepair some years ago.

In Ulysses

Omaha is mentioned in James Joyce's 1922 novel, Ulysses, as the fictional scene of a lynching:

Hanging over the bloody paper with Alf looking for spicy bits instead

of attending to the general public. Picture of a butting match, trying to

crack their bloody skulls, one chap going for the other with his head down

like a bull at a gate. And another one: BLACK BEAST BURNED IN OMAHA, GA.

A lot of Deadwood Dicks in slouch hats and they firing at a Sambo strung

up in a tree with his tongue out and a bonfire under him. Gob, they ought

to drown him in the sea after and electrocute and crucify him to make sure

of their job.[4]