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History · Box Springs

Box Springs’ post office opened in 1853

Most of Box Springs was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: maps from 1949 on.

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How Box Springs began

When was Box Springs founded?

1853

The Box Springs post office opened in 1853, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 303173 years
Founding year: the first Box Springs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Box Springs’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Box Springs came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Box Springs.

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A post office has been in operation at Box Springs since 1853. The community was named for a local spring that was boxed in and used as a watering stop for the railroad. Pipes were run from the "boxed-spring" to a water tower adjacent to the tracks. The name Boxed Spring was later changed to Box Springs, as it was easier to pronounce.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place as the "Town of Box Springs" in 1913. The town's charter was dissolved in 1931.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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On the map

Box Springs on the map, 1949 to 1955

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Box Springs. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Box Springs on the 1949 USGS mapBox Springs on the 1955 USGS map1949Upatoi sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Box Springs.

Famous people

Famous people close to Box Springs

Nobody well known was born in Box Springs itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Carson McCullersAmerican writer · b. 1917
Wayne BradyAmerican actor, comedian, and television person… · b. 1972
Ma RaineyAmerican blues singer · b. 1886
Kentavious Caldwell-PopeAmerican basketball player · b. 1993
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Robert CrayAmerican blues guitarist and singer (b. 1953) · b. 1953
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Xavier WoodsAmerican professional wrestler · b. 1986
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Box Springs’s post office has been open since 1853.

Gone or out of use
Liberty Hill Baptist ChurchchurchPine Grove Academyschool
1cemetery inside Box Springs
Mount Paron Church

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

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Questions about Box Springs’ history

What year was Box Springs founded?

The Box Springs post office opened in 1853, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) 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.