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Bacon County, Georgia

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1914formed

11,140pop. 2020

35cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Alma.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Georgia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Bacon titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alma Depot	Alma	Building	1983
Bacon County Courthouse	Alma	Building	1980
Bacon County School	Alma	Building	2007
Rabinowitz Building	Alma	Building	1987

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bacon was formed in 1914 (1914-11-03) from Appling, COFFEE (lot 115.

BACON created from APPLING, COFFEE (lot 115; 1st dist). PIERCE, and WARE. Act passed 27 July 1914; took effect 3 November 1914.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bacon County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,460	8,096	8,940	8,359	9,379	10,103	11,140

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

35 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 35 of 35 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antioch Cemetery	31.52854	-82.29012
Big Creek Cemetery	31.6355	-82.40085
Campground Cemetery	31.6095	-82.57989
Carters Chapel Cemetery	31.54298	-82.26373
Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery	31.44836	-82.38806
Damascus Cemetery	31.54104	-82.28651
Douglas Chapel Cemetery	31.53931	-82.547
Elisabeth Chapel Cemetery	31.46672	-82.43567
Friendship Cemetery	31.48715	-82.34235
Harrison Cemetery	31.63394	-82.4547
Harrison Cemetery	31.41743	-82.42263
Holton Cemetery	31.51939	-82.43542
Holton Cemetery	31.67253	-82.5322
Jesus Cemetery	31.53471	-82.24998
Johnsons Cemetery	31.58908	-82.44471
Lees Chapel Cemetery	31.44696	-82.44779
Mercer Cemetery	31.59825	-82.56624
Mims Church Cemetery	31.65191	-82.60854
New Hope Cemetery	31.64398	-82.46312
Old Pine Grove Church Cemetery	31.48497	-82.49558
Patterson Cemetery	31.59246	-82.5023
Pine Lawn Cemetery	31.59032	-82.46251
Pine Level Cemetery	31.62144	-82.50183
Rockingham Cemetery	31.54202	-82.41825
Rose Hill Cemetery	31.53642	-82.45759
Springfield Cemetery	31.63093	-82.44688
Stewart Cemetery	31.60741	-82.5268
Sweat Cemetery	31.47468	-82.49837
Taylor Cemetery	31.65719	-82.57221
Taylors Cemetery	31.56825	-82.48069
Ten Mile Cemetery	31.48465	-82.36068
Turner Cemetery	31.56409	-82.29623
Unity Cemetery	31.67185	-82.48388
Wesley Chapel Cemetery	31.58132	-82.32458
Wesley Chapel Cemetery	31.5714	-82.56661

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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