GRIFFIN, a city of Georgia, U.S.A., 43m. S. of Atlanta; the county seat of Spalding county. It is on Federal highway 41, and is served by the Central of Georgia and the Southern rail ways. The population was 8,24o in 1920; 193o was 10,321. Its manufacturing industries include cotton mills with an aggregate of about 5,000 looms and 140,00o spindles in 1928. A United States agricultural experiment station and test-farm is on the outskirts of the city. Griffin was founded in 184o and chartered as a city in 1846.