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Webster County, Georgia

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1854formed

2,348pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—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 Preston, Weston.

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 Webster titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boyd Mill Place	Weston	District	2009
Webster County Courthouse	Preston	Building	1980
Webster County Jails	Preston	Building	2000

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Webster was formed in 1854 (1854-01-09) from Marion, Stewart.

KINCHAFOONEE (now WEBSTER) created from MARION and STEWART. Act passed 16 Dec 1853; took effect 9 Jan 1854.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Webster County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,030	5,237	6,618	5,342	4,726	4,081	3,247	2,341	2,390	2,348

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site	Park unit	14.1 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

14 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Askew Cemetery	32.02657	-84.60953
Davis Cemetery	32.07626	-84.48825
Foremans Cemetery	31.93248	-84.54399
Lowrey Cemetery	32.11904	-84.57575
Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery	31.9728	-84.53384
Mount Avery Cemetery	32.06571	-84.48908
Mount Avery Cemetery	32.06876	-84.48686
New Hope Cemetery	32.04509	-84.56181
Pickett - Shipley Cemetery	32.18576	-84.63969
Poplar Springs Cemetery	32.02021	-84.55049
Preston Cemetery	32.06707	-84.53312
Turkey Creek Cemetery	31.92739	-84.55627
Weston Baptist Church Cemetery	31.9746	-84.60964
Weston Methodist Church Cemetery	31.97849	-84.61686

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Gooseberry	32.00155	-84.50575

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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