Alapaha is a town in Berrien County, Georgia, United States, along the Alapaha River. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 481.

Alapaha developed from a trade settlement upon the site of a Seminole village as soon as the similar name. The present-day Georgia town of Lakeland was originally named “Alapaha” and existed before the town that now bears the name.

The Smithsonian Institution documented the presence of an Indian mound near Alapaha in 1886: “The Alapaha mound is situated 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the town of Alapaha, on Alapaha River, on lot of estate No. 328, fifth district of Berrien County, Georgia. It is 38 feet (12 m) across, 6 feet (1.8 m) above the level, and somewhat oval in shape. In the center of the mound was a burial vault 6 feet (1.8 m) deep, 3 feet (0.91 m) wide, and 6 feet (1.8 m) long, north and south. Two bodies were deposited in this vault following the heads pointing south.” It is realistic that these remains became share of the Smithsonian collection, as was typical of its archaeological expeditions at the time. This source next gives the location and contents of two additional Berrien County mounds south of Nashville, the Withlacoochee mound, and the French Ferry mound.

Early European settlers were primarily Highland Scots Methodist or Primitive Baptist, representing two socio-economic classes, “Jeffersonian yeomen” and a “squirearchy,” two positive divisions of landed farmers created by the Georgia Land Lottery of 1820. Between 1820 and 1840, agriculture was principally sheep and cattle herding. With the advent of railroad proceed in the 1830s a sizeable population of Irish Catholic laborers contracted in and re the belittle Alapaha River, eventually leading to the introduction of St. Anne’s Catholic church there. Brushy Creek Primitive Baptist Church, originally in Irwin County, figured prominently in local affairs happening to and after the Civil War. The Primitive Baptists often opposed the Methodist program of “benevolence” toward less lucky citizens.