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Lanier County, Georgia

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1920formed

9,877pop. 2020

2cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1986. Most listings are in or near Lakeland.

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 Lanier titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Lanier County Auditorium and Grammar School	Lakeland	Building	1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lanier was formed in 1920 (1920-11-02) from Berrien, Clinch, Lowndes.

LANIER created from BERRIEN, CLINCH, and LOWNDES. Act passed 11 Aug 1919; took effect 2 Nov 1920.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lanier County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,190	5,632	5,151	5,097	5,654	7,241	9,877

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

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

Cemeteries — 2 of 2 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Foreman Cemetery	30.92675	-83.0164
Lovejoy Cemetery	31.01321	-83.00493

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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