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Putnam County, Georgia

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10historic places

—earliest paper

1807formed

22,047pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Eatonton, Harmony.

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 Putnam titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Eatonton Historic District	Eatonton	District	1975
Gatewood House	Eatonton	Building	1975
Rock Eagle Site	Eatonton	Site	1978
Rockville Academy and St. Paul Methodist Church Historic District	Eatonton	District	2002
Singleton House	Eatonton	Building	1974
Strong-Davis-Rice-George House	Eatonton	Building	2006
Terrell-Sadler House	Harmony	District	2000
Tompkins Inn	Eatonton	Building	1978
Turnwold	Eatonton	Building	1980
Woodland	Eatonton	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Putnam was formed in 1807 (1807-12-10) from Baldwin.

PUTNAM created from BALDWIN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
10,029	15,475	10,260	10,125	14,539	13,436	15,151	8,514	7,731	7,798	10,295	18,812	22,047

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

5 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Crestlawn Memorial Gardens	33.31885	-83.41851
Hearnville Cemetery	33.42012	-83.50461
Key Cemetery	33.20245	-83.43516
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	33.41478	-83.50067
Pine Grove Cemetery	33.32763	-83.39683

Historical populated places — 7 of 7

Name	Lat	Lon
Apollo	33.36541	-83.52767
Clopton	33.22375	-83.43044
Glenwoods Spring	33.26097	-83.46044
Hearnville	33.42041	-83.50545
Huron	33.26208	-83.49767
Spivey	33.39958	-83.27433
The Glades	33.39457	-83.44378

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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