Ambrose is located west of Douglas, not far from the Irwin County line, and has always been an agriculturally focused community. When the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad reached the area, in 1899, Dennis Vickers and J. J. Phillips gave the land for the town site. I’m not sure as to the origin of the name. Some of the first businesses were H. L. Vickers’s general store and Dr. Moorman’s pharmacy. Dennis Vickers built a gin to service the many cotton farmers in the area. A school was built in the late 1920s and the town was first electrified by Georgia Power in 1930.
