When I was a kid everyone called Samson, "snuff town". The reason being Faulk Merchantile which bought it by the boxcar load. They used to send it out in the mail as free samples.
We would make smoke bombs out of it.
When I worked S.E. Alabama in the mid 70's I would go to Samson maybe once a month. It appeared to be dying. I went back for the first time in many years about a year ago and the town was having a resurgence. Not sure why but a lot of new buildings and previously abandoned ones now occupied.
I was very surprised the last time I went to Hurtsboro, where we have family, and saw that things had really taken off. In that case, it's commuters from Columbus (a couple who work for AFLAC had bought my ggg grandfather's house).
It seems to be spotty, though. Uchee is still almost uninhabited.