The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Flovilla.
Flovilla incorporated in 1885. Flovilla is a coined name meaning "village of flowers".
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quick answers
How Flovilla began
When was Flovilla founded?
1885
The Flovilla post office opened in 1885, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Heard (1882), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
First census: 422 in 18902020 census: 643141 years
Founding year: the first Flovilla post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Flovilla’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Flovilla’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Flovilla’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
Flovilla, census by census
Lost half of its people between 1900 and 1930, then more than doubled.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Flovilla’s Wikipedia page.
Timeline
Flovilla, 1829 to 2010
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1829Post officeThe Indian Springs post office opens
- 1882Post officeThe Heard post office opens
- 1885Post officeThe Heard post office closes
- 1885Post officeThe Flovilla post office opens
- 1890Born hereMilt Watson is born here
- 20th century
- 1903Born hereEldren Bailey is born here
- 1981
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 21st century
- 2010CensusPopulation peaks at 653
By decade
Flovilla, decade by decade
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Flovilla on the map in 1981
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Flovilla.
1981Milledgeville sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Flovilla.
Famous people
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Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices and burying grounds
Flovilla’s post office has been open since 1885. Another post office, Heard, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Indian Springs
Heard
Flovilla
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1cemetery inside Flovilla
Flovilla
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Flovilla’s history
What year was Flovilla founded?
The Flovilla post office opened in 1885, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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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 (3), 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) 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.