Allen Mill | East Baldwin. See Old Mills |
Andes | West Baldwin on Old Maps |
Black Springs | Old community in East Baldwin on Sparta Hwy. Families: Moran, Babb, Collins, Chandler, Brooks, Gilmore. Post office here in 1854, Samuel G. Chandler was the postmaster. |
Blakeville | Community North of Tan Yard Branch, Named for Dr. Frederick Blake who lived in the first plank framed house built North of the Tan Yard Branch about 1849 |
Blandy/Blandy Hills | Was railroad stop for prison farm. Now public schools, football stadium and Board Of Education facilities are located here. |
Blood Town | African-American settlement 1 mile from the sanitarium |
Browns Crossing | Community located on the Macon Hwy.49 (Old Garrison Road) and Brown's Crossing Road. Browm Station, named in honor of David Pickney Brown, was established here in 1880 on the Augusta and Macon Railroad. Post office was established in 1877. Population in 1910 - 75. Population in 1923 - 26. Brown, Chandler, Williamson, Bonner, and Digby are a few of the families that lived here. |
Carling | was a railroad station in Midway near Allen's Sanitarium |
Coopers/Cooperville | Southwest Baldwin. Named after Thomas J. Cooper. Some Families: Cooper, Etheridge, Wood, Torrace, Gladin, Pierce |
Dog Town | Settlement on Fishing Creek, governor's first house was located here. |
Dovedale | Northwest Baldwin Co. Myricks and Stiles families lived here. Pop. 40 in 1923. |
Hamp Brown Bottom | An old African American community east of capitol square. Named for Hamp Brown Jr. It host a festival anually. |
Hardwick | Created 1912, named after Governor Thomas Hardwick. Near Midway |
Harrisburg | Old African American community In Hardwick, named after Solomon Harris. The Union Recorder published a great news article on Saturday Feb. 25 2006 about the history of Harrisburg. For those interested, a copy of the newspaper is a must. |
Johnsonville | Old settlement near east bank of Oconee River, part of James Barrow's Beulah Plantation per 1838 advertisement. |
Lintonville | Community located West of Oconee River 3/4 mile from county jail. Where the scaffolds were built on a hill when Mike Shaw (1877) & Frank Humphries (1886) were hung. |
Maryville | Community located en East Baldwin. Maryville Academy was located here in 1890's, early 1900's. Familes: Ennis, Palmer, Moran |
Meriwether | Railroad Station/Post Office, Community NW county. Katherine F. S. Myrick was postmistress here in 1902. Population 25 in 1910. Population 100 in 1923. Harpers, Napiers, Wynns lived here. |
Midway | In 1848 was a village around the Oglethorpe University, 2 miles south of Milledgeville, halfway between Scottsboro and Milledgeville. In 1848 it contained 10 or 12 families. |
Milledgeville | County seat. Population in 1910 - 4,385 |
Montpelier | Old Montpelier near Oconee, New Montpelier community on Hwy 22 East |
Mount Pleasant | Community in SW Baldwin. Families: Hubbards, Littles, Lingolds, Criswells, Beck, DuBose |
Myrick | North Baldwin near junction of Little River and Oconee River. Named for Myrick family who lived here on their Riverside plantation on Little River. Myrick's ferry was here. |
Oconee Old Town | Was old Indian town south of Milledgeville on east side of Oconee River |
Pancras | Community and railroad stop on Central Railroad in SW Baldwin Gordon Hwy area. Families: Wood, Pettigrew, Hubbard, Carmani, Overman. Was called Pancras in 1916 |
Salem | Was old community in East Baldwin, 4 miles from Milledgeville. In 1848 it contained a small cluster of houses and a store |
Sandtown | Northeast Baldwin, crossroads of Mt. Nebo Rd (Lake Laurel Rd.) and Sparta Hwy. Families: Osborne, Roberson, Dunn, King, Green |
Scottsboro | Old community S of Milledgeville |
Sintonville | African- American settlement in northwestern part of city. New in 1878 and named for African-American John Sinton Sr., a harness maker from Virginia, who died in 1900. |
Stevens Pottery | Community south west Baldwin, 1 mile from Coopers, named after Henry Stevens. Population 200 in 1910 and 1923 |
Talmadge | Community near Midway. Oglethorpe University located here. Post office established here in 1854, postmaster Reuben Nash; Re-established in June 1869, |
Trilby | Community in south Baldwin/Toomsboro Hwy. near Black Creek in Scottsboro District. Families here were Halls, Humphries, Barnes, Slater, Bland, Richardson and Sibley |
The Colony | South Baldwin. Was part of the State Asylum |
Underwood | Was a community in East Baldwin, near Hancock County line. |
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