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Peach County, Georgia

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1924formed

27,981pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Fort Valley, Byron.

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 Peach titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Byron Historic District	Byron	District	1995
Everett Square Historic District	Fort Valley	District	1994
Everett, James A., House	Fort Valley	Building	1992
Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic District	Fort Valley	District	2010
Fort Valley State College Historic District	Fort Valley	District	2000
Henry Alexander Hunt High School Gymnasium	Fort Valley	Building	2021
Peach County Courthouse	Fort Valley	Building	1980
Strother's Farm	Fort Valley	Building	1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Peach was formed in 1924 (1924-11-04) from Houston, Macon.

PEACH created from HOUSTON and MACON. Act passed 18 Jul 1924; took effect 4 Nov 1924.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
10,268	10,378	11,705	13,846	19,151	23,668	27,981

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Church Cemetery	32.60505	-83.79521
Cliett Cemetery	32.60695	-83.77392
Diamond Cemetery	32.58609	-83.81504
Lisenby Cemetery	32.61761	-83.77101
Miami Cemetery	32.54624	-83.79689
Oak Lawn Cemetery	32.54648	-83.9021
Scattergood Cemetery	32.58612	-83.78667
Williams Cemetery	32.55236	-83.95463
Willow Lake Cemetery	32.5065	-83.90449

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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