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Ware County, Georgia

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
8historic places
—earliest paper
1824formed
36,251pop. 2020
21cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Waycross, Manor.

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 Ware titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

8 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Barber, Obediah, HomesteadWaycrossBuilding1995
Downtown Waycross Historic DistrictWaycrossDistrict1992
First African Baptist Church and ParsonageWaycrossBuilding2003
Lott CemeteryWaycrossSite2008
Manor SchoolManorBuilding2017
Phoenix HotelWaycrossBuilding1986
U.S. Post Office and CourthouseWaycrossBuilding1980
Waycross Historic DistrictWaycrossDistrict1976

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ware was formed in 1824 (1824-12-15) from Appling.

WARE created from APPLING.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ware County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

37k19k1,20518301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,2052,3232,2004,15913,76128,36127,92930,28934,21937,18035,48336,251

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

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

Cemeteries — 21 of 21 listed
NameLatLon
Bagley Cemetery31.43653-82.58907
Barner Cemetery31.18009-82.41796
Bennett Cemetery31.26857-82.64738
Camp Branch Church of God of Prophecy Cemetery31.12783-82.61081
Camp Branch Providence Cemetery31.11537-82.62025
Carter Cemetery31.04261-82.40866
Chauncey Cemetery31.30094-82.58356
Crestwood Memorial Gardens31.21996-82.42037
Greenlawn Cemetery31.18101-82.25026
Hazzard Hill Cemetery31.21494-82.33568
Hephzibah Baptist Church Cemetery31.32062-82.50975
Kettle Creek Cemetery31.21401-82.4017
Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery31.39295-82.53923
Lott Cemetery31.22049-82.35485
Moore and Lee Cemetery31.4402-82.5718
Mount Pleasant Cemetery31.21151-82.32702
Oakland Cemetery31.22882-82.33874
Red Oak Cemetery31.23243-82.32873
Rome Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery31.342-82.46489
Walden Cemetery31.27433-82.62282
Waresboro Cemetery31.25818-82.47902

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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