Waycross is the county chair of, and only incorporated city in, Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 14,725 at the 2010 Census and dropped to 13,942 in the 2020 census.

Waycross includes two historic districts (Downtown Waycross Historic District and Waycross Historic District) and several further properties that are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Lott Cemetery, the First African Baptist Church and Parsonage, and the Obediah Barber Homestead (which is seven miles south of the city). The city is with referenced in the declare Miller’s Cave by the international Submarine Band.https://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/song/millers-cave/

The area now known as Waycross was first settled circa 1820, locally known as “Old Nine” or “Number Nine” and later Pendleton. It was renamed Tebeauville in 1857, incorporated under that herald in 1866, and designated county chair of Ware County in 1873. It was incorporated as “Way Cross” on March 3, 1874. Waycross gets its name from the city’s location at key railroad junctions; lines from six directions meet at the city.

The city council in Waycross opened municipal primary elections to white women in 1917, the first town in Georgia to reach so. This acquit yourself was taken because some of the largest property owners in town were women who wanted a tell in how their tax dollars were spent. It wasn’t until two years well ahead in 1919 that Atlanta became the second Georgia city to pull off this. Georgia women would not get the right to vote generally in all elections until 1922.