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Bleckley County, Georgia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1912formed

12,583pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Cochran.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bleckley County Courthouse	Cochran	Building	1980
Cochran Municipal Building and School	Cochran	Building	2003
Hillcrest	Cochran	Building	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bleckley was formed in 1912 (1912-10-02) from Pulaski.

BLECKLEY created from PULASKI. Act passed 30 Jul 1912; took effect 2 Oct 1912.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
10,532	9,655	9,218	9,642	10,767	11,666	12,583

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

11 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barbour Cemetery	32.38703	-83.25474
Cedar Hill Cemetery	32.39551	-83.34025
Hart Cemetery	32.34503	-83.32849
Hinson Cemetery	32.47626	-83.24221
James Dykes Memorial Park	32.41431	-83.48212
Jones Cemetery	32.43424	-83.28494
Limestone Memorial Gardens	32.30749	-83.35016
Pulaski - Bleckley Memorial Gardens	32.33357	-83.41047
Simpson Cemetery	32.36064	-83.39652
Walker Cemetery	32.48864	-83.39996
Walters Cemetery	32.49006	-83.20765

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Ainslie	32.44848	-83.47157
McGriff	32.43293	-83.41573

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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