Carrollton’s post office opened in 1827, and 7 of its places are on the National Register
More historic than 76% of U.S. towns · #46 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Most of Carrollton was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. 7 places in town are on the National Register, among them three historic districts with 405 buildings between them. Below: 13 old photos and papers, maps from 1885 on, and the census since 1880.
Founding year: the first Carrollton post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Carrollton’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Carrollton is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns, #46 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Carrollton’s overall grade.
Georgia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Georgia town has 10.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Carrollton’s 150 sits above most of its state (76% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 411 historic buildings outnumber those of 96% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A. The pre-1940 share (±1.7 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Carrollton’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Every building
Carrollton, building by building, 1885–1922
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Places that used to be
Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Carrollton’s post office has been open since 1827.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Briarwood EstatesBuck CreekElizabeth Village Mobile Home ParkHolly HeightsLamplighter SquareRiverbend
Gone or out of use
Carrollton Municipal Airportairport
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Carrollton
BeulahCarrollton CityKing StreetStripling Chapel
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Carroll County, of which Carrollton is the county seat, was chartered in 1826, and was governed at the time by the Carroll Inferior Court, which consisted of five elected justices. In 1829, the justices voted to move the county seat from the site it occupied near the present community of Sandhill, to a new site about 8 miles (13 km) to the southwest.
The original intention was to call the new county seat "Troupville", in honor of former governor George Troup, but Troup was not popular with the state government of the time, so the Georgia General Assembly incorporated the town as Carrollton, in December 1829. The name was in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The Carrollton post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Carrollton rank for history?
Carrollton is more historic than 76% of U.S. towns, #46 of 263 in Georgia. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Carrollton?
7 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Bonner-Sharp-Gunn House (listed 1970, the first), and 3 historic districts, the South Carrollton Residential Historic District, the Mandeville Mills and Mill Village Historic District and the Carrollton Downtown Historic District, with 405 contributing buildings. 411 historic buildings in all.
How old are the homes in Carrollton?
6% of Carrollton’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.7 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1989.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (16), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (7), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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