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History · Du Pont

Du Pont’s post office opened in 1874, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1910.

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Quick answers

How Du Pont began

When was Du Pont founded?

1874

The Du Pont post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Lawton (1860) and Suwanoochee (1860), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 342 in 19102020 census: 134152 years
Founding year: the first Du Pont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Du Pont’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Du Pont are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Du Pont.Old housesHalf of Du Pont’s homes were built before 1961.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Du Pont’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.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Du Pont’s post office has been open since 1874. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Lawton
1860–1874
Suwanoochee
1860–1866
Du Pont
1874–today
18601940today
Gone or out of use
DuPont Schoolschool

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

The story so far

Du Pont, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Du Pont yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Du Pont is a town in Clinch County, Georgia, United States. The population was 134 in 2020. According to the 1916 History of Clinch County the town was first settled around 1856 as Lawton, on the route of the newly chartered Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. During the Civil War, a branch line from Lawton to Live Oak, Florida, was built to assist the movement of Confederate troops and supplies, but was not completed until 1865, when the war was nearly over. The town was renamed in 1874 after J. P. A. DuPont, an early settler. It was incorporated as a city in 1889.

Its first post office opened in 1874. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 120 to 134 (+12%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Du Pont, 1860 to 1954

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Post officeThe Lawton post office opens
  3. 1860Post officeThe Suwanoochee post office opens
  4. 1866Post officeThe Suwanoochee post office closes
  5. 1874Post officeThe Lawton post office closes
  6. 1874Post officeThe Du Pont post office opens
  7. 20th century
  8. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Du Pont, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Du Pont limit, US84 WB2014Du Pont limit, US84 WBDu Pont Town Hall2012Du Pont Town Hall
On the map

Du Pont on the map, 1954 to 1980

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

Du Pont on the 1954 USGS mapDu Pont on the 1980 USGS map1954Valdosta sheet · 1:250,000

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

People over time

Du Pont, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 381

Between 120 and 381 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Du Pont’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Du Pont’s history

What year was Du Pont founded?

The Du Pont post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 Wikimedia Commons (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.