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Clarke County, Georgia

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
63historic places
—earliest paper
1801formed
128,671pop. 2020
18cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 63 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Athens, Whitehall, Winterville.

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 Clarke titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

37 of 63 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

63 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Athens FactoryAthensDistrict1980
Athens Manufacturing CompanyAthensDistrict2002
Athens Warehouse Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1988
Bishop HouseAthensBuilding1972
Bloomfield Street Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1985
Boulevard Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1985
Brightwell Shotgun RowAthensDistrict2001
Buena Vista Heights Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1999
Camak HouseAthensBuilding1975
Carnegie Library BuildingAthensBuilding1975
Chase, Albon, HouseAthensBuilding1974
Chestnut Grove SchoolAthensBuilding1984
Chi Omega HouseAthensBuilding2019
Church-Waddel-Brumby HouseAthensBuilding1975
Clarke County JailAthensBuilding1980
Cobb, T.R.R., HouseAthensBuilding2013
Cobb-Treanor HouseAthensBuilding1979
Cobbham Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1978
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant-AthensAthensBuilding2006
Crane, Ross, HouseAthensBuilding1979
Dearing Street Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1975
Dearing, Albin P., HouseAthensBuilding1979
Downtown Athens Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1978
Downtown Athens Historic District (Additional Documentation, Boundary Increase II and Boundary Decrease)AthensDistrict2006
Downtown Athens Historic District (Boundary Increase)AthensDistrict1984
First African Methodist Episcopal ChurchAthensBuilding1980
Franklin HouseAthensBuilding1974
Garden Club of Georgia Museum-Headquarters House,Founder's Memorial GardenAthensDistrict1972
Gospel Pilgrim CemeteryAthensSite2006
Grady, Henry W., House NHLAthensBuilding1976
Hamilton, Dr. James S., HouseAthensBuilding1979
Jackson Street CemeteryAthensSite2009
Lucy Cobb Institute CampusAthensBuilding1972
Lumpkin, Gov. Wilson, HouseAthensBuilding1972
Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, HouseAthensBuilding1975
Milledge Avenue Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1985
Milledge Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase)AthensDistrict2009
Milledge Circle Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1985
Morton BuildingAthensBuilding1979
Newton HouseAthensBuilding2002
Oconee Hill CemeteryAthensDistrict2013
Oconee Street SchoolAthensBuilding2018
Oglethorpe Avenue Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1987
Old North Campus, University of GeorgiaAthensDistrict1972
Owens, Hubert Bond, HouseAthensBuilding2008
Parr, Calvin W., HouseAthensBuilding1982
Parrott Insurance BuildingAthensBuilding1977
President's HouseAthensBuilding1972
Reese Street Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1987
Rocksprings Shotgun Row Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1996
Sledge, James A., HouseAthensBuilding1974
Sorrells, R. P., HouseAthensBuilding1992
Thomas-Carithers HouseAthensBuilding1979
United States Post Office and Court HouseAthensBuilding2014
Upson HouseAthensBuilding1973
Ware-Lyndon HouseAthensBuilding1976
West Cloverhurst Avenue Historic DistrictAthensDistrict2007
West Hancock Avenue Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1988
White HallWhitehallBuilding1979
Wilkins HouseAthensBuilding1970
Winterville Historic DistrictWintervilleDistrict2001
Woodlawn Historic DistrictAthensDistrict1987
Young Women's Christian Association ComplexAthensBuilding1987

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Clarke was formed in 1801 (1801-12-05) from Jackson.

CLARKE created from JACKSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Clarke County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

129k68k7,6281810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
7,6288,76710,52211,21811,70217,70826,11128,39836,55045,36374,498101,489128,671

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

18 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed
NameLatLon
Athens Memory Gardens33.92756-83.28276
Bates - Smith Cemetery33.91193-83.34935
Buena Vista Cemetery34.02927-83.36988
Coile Cemetery34.00262-83.28939
Davis Cemetery33.90606-83.30792
East Lawn Cemetery33.9527-83.3473
Evergreen Memorial Park33.93665-83.45771
Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery33.96951-83.36186
Jackson Street Cemetery33.95432-83.37238
Lester Cemetery33.94204-83.31617
Matthews Cemetery34.01372-83.31765
Morton Cemetery33.89433-83.28483
Mount Zion Cemetery33.95316-83.52405
Oconee Hill Cemetery33.94769-83.36629
Puryear Cemetery33.8707-83.29264
Tuck Cemetery33.86264-83.28541
Williams Cemetery33.91215-83.34948
Young Cemetery33.85286-83.3067
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Cobbham33.95984-83.39433

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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