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Telfair County, Georgia

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3historic places

—earliest paper

1807formed

12,477pop. 2020

38cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near McRae.

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 Telfair titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
McRae, Max and Emma Sue, House	McRae	Building	2007
South Georgia College Administration Building	McRae	Building	1980
Telfair County Courthouse and Jail	McRae	Building	1995

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Telfair was formed in 1807 (1807-12-10) from Wilkinson.

TELFAIR created from WILKINSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1810	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
744	2,104	2,763	2,713	4,828	10,083	15,291	15,145	13,221	11,715	11,445	11,794	12,477

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

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

Cemeteries — 38 of 38 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Church Cemetery	31.85561	-83.08942
Blockhouse Church Cemetery	31.82462	-83.01046
Brewer Cemetery	31.89678	-82.74287
Browning Cemetery	32.00684	-82.80847
Browning Cemetery	32.00989	-82.80597
Cedar Grove Cemetery	31.90865	-82.705
Clark Cemetery	31.81519	-82.90956
Dopson Cemetery	31.8156	-82.96068
Floyd Cemetery	32.12378	-82.92792
Graham Cemetery	31.85287	-82.9721
Graham Cemetery	31.9102	-82.9741
Hall Cemetery	31.85086	-82.82825
Helena Cemetery	32.0788	-82.90599
Hulett Cemetery	31.88915	-83.02038
Jacksonville Cemetery	31.81588	-82.97735
Larkey Cemetery	31.84778	-82.97469
Livingston Cemetery	31.98628	-82.77863
McDuffie Cemetery	32.05556	-82.86343
McLean Cemetery	31.95295	-82.9507
Milan City Cemetery	32.01069	-83.06194
Mount Zion Church Cemetery	31.97731	-83.07153
Oak Grove Cemetery	32.07	-82.89405
Oakland Cemetery	32.08355	-82.92026
Powell Cemetery	31.9235	-82.83337
Riverside Cemetery	31.90716	-82.70501
Rockwell Cemetery	31.92323	-83.01487
Sharon Cemetery	31.8815	-83.1371
Shaw Cemetery	31.84873	-82.9374
Silver Cemetery	31.98592	-82.77906
Studstill Cemetery	31.9675	-83.11242
Telfair Memorial Gardens	32.0566	-82.86823
Turnpike Church Cemetery	31.98348	-82.89654
Vaughn Tabernacle Cemetery	31.87426	-83.12852
Webb Cemetery	31.89696	-82.9366
Wilcox Cemetery	31.8166	-82.96163
Wilcox Cemetery	31.82048	-82.94327
Williams Cemetery	31.90017	-83.15431
Wooten Cemetery	31.97255	-82.75029

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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