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McDuffie County, Georgia

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17historic places

—earliest paper

1870formed

21,632pop. 2020

52cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Thomson, Boneville, Thomas.

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 McDuffie titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boneville Historic District	Boneville	District	2000
Bowdre-Rees-Knox House	Thomas	Building	1979
Carr, Thomas, District	Thomson	District	1975
Hardaway, James L., House	Thomson	Building	1993
Hayes Line Historic District	Thomson	District	2000
Hickory Hill	Thomson	Building	1979
Hillman-Bowden House	Thomson	Building	2002
Lazenby, John Moore, House	Thomason	Building	2013
McNeill House	Thomson	Building	1992
Old Rock House	Thomson	Building	1970
Pine Top Farm	Thomson	District	1996
Sweetwater Inn	Thomson	Building	1985
Thomson Commercial Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Thomson	District	1989
Thomson Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase and Decrease)	Thomson	District	2025
Usry House	Thomson	Building	1974
Watson, Thomas E., House NHL	Thomson	Building	1976
Wrightsboro Historic District	Wrightsboro	District	1998

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mcduffie was formed in 1870 (1870-10-18) from Columbia, Warren.

McDUFFIE created from COLUMBIA and WARREN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

McDuffie County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
9,449	9,804	11,509	10,878	11,443	12,627	18,546	21,231	21,632

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

52 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 52 of 52 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams Cemetery	33.37458	-82.37373
Adams Cemetery	33.37513	-82.37429
Adams Chapel Cemetery	33.37543	-82.36754
Alleluia Community Cemetery	33.36878	-82.39954
Barksdale - Story - Bradshaw Cemetery	33.3468	-82.47818
Collins Cemetery	33.52124	-82.47401
Dearing United Methodist Church Cemetery	33.41726	-82.38311
Fort Creek Baptist Church Cemetery	33.35158	-82.42465
Foster Cemetery	33.48124	-82.59013
Griffin-Johnson Cemetery	33.63179	-82.52902
Hardaway Cemetery	33.44791	-82.51763
Hughes Cemetery	33.35897	-82.47974
Iron Hill Cemetery	33.38567	-82.40306
Ivey Cemetery	33.50524	-82.58371
Ivory Family Cemetery	33.41519	-82.49859
Johnson Cemetery	33.44374	-82.52957
Jones Grove Cemetery	33.35375	-82.49429
Liberty Hill Cemetery	33.54528	-82.59599
Marshall Cemetery	33.49485	-82.41929
Moore Cemetery	33.60834	-82.60892
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	33.42424	-82.52818
Neal Cemetery	33.36879	-82.36889
New Hope Cemetery	33.46319	-82.58263
New Zion Hill Cemetery	33.54711	-82.59025
Old Griffin Cemetery	33.64749	-82.49633
Paul Cemetery	33.37568	-82.40248
Phillips Cemetery	33.35072	-82.44197
Pine Grove Cemetery	33.54757	-82.50871
Piney Grove Cemetery	33.41958	-82.36845
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.54374	-82.54735
Poplar Head Baptist Church Cemetery	33.3506	-82.42307
Printup Cemetery	33.3314	-82.39469
Rees-Wade-Short Cemetery	33.54985	-82.5379
Reeves Cemetery	33.32114	-82.37165
Reeves Family Cemetery	33.33209	-82.36403
Saint Luke Cemetery	33.47763	-82.46124
Salem Cemetery	33.42906	-82.47134
Savannah Valley Memorial Garden	33.51707	-82.50402
Silver Run Cemetery	33.36813	-82.32248
Smith Cemetery	33.34764	-82.34674
Smith Cemetery	33.33094	-82.34801
Society Cemetery	33.45485	-82.58429
Springfield Cemetery	33.47396	-82.50402
Story Cemetery	33.41235	-82.5129
Sweetwater Baptist Church Cemetery	33.4343	-82.48568
Thomson City Cemetery	33.47064	-82.50601
Union Cemetery	33.49595	-82.56393
Walker Cemetery	33.39359	-82.35401
Walker Cemetery	33.37486	-82.36734
Watson Family Cemetery	33.45432	-82.46767
Westview Cemetery	33.46511	-82.5115
Wrightsboro Cemetery	33.55013	-82.57207

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Columbia Mine	33.6168	-82.56652
Rousseau Spring	33.60069	-82.42679
Shiloh	33.58069	-82.49707
Tatham Mines	33.62291	-82.53985

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

Historical markers

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