The story
Read it all →How Aldora came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Aldora.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Aldora as a town in 1906.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History · Aldora
Half of Aldora’s homes were built after 2011
Most of Aldora was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2011. Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1920.
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Aldora’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Aldora’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Aldora’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.People over time
Aldora, census by census
Peaked at 746 in 1940; 103 people lived here in 2010.
10 censuses, 1920–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Aldora’s Wikipedia page.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Aldora on the map, 1951 to 1973
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Aldora. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1951Barnesville sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Aldora.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Aldora
Nobody well known was born in Aldora itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Aldora’s history
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.