Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Good Hope

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Good Hope

Good Hope’s post office opened in 1839, and 13% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1896 on and the census since 1910.

1839first post office
0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Good Hope began

When was Good Hope founded?

1839

The Good Hope post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 151 in 19102020 census: 339187 years
Founding year: the first Good Hope post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Good Hope’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 Good Hope are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost a third of its people between 1920 and 1960, then more than doubled.On the map since 18963 editions of the USGS map, 1896 to 1985. Watch Good Hope change.Deep rootsA post office since 1839: 187 years of Good Hope.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Good Hope’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Good Hope’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Good Hope, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020248 in 1920Low: 165

Lost a third of its people between 1920 and 1960, then more than doubled.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

On the map

Good Hope on the map, 1896 to 1985

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

Good Hope on the 1896 USGS mapGood Hope on the 1964 USGS mapGood Hope on the 1985 USGS map1896Monroe sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story

How Good Hope came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Good Hope.

Read it all →

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place as the Town of Good Hope in 1905. The community was so named on account of the first settlers' "good hope" their town would grow to become prosperous.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Good Hope, 1839 to 2020

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Good Hope post office opens
  3. 1896On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 21st century
  5. 2020CensusPopulation peaks at 339
By decade

Good Hope, decade by decade

Today3 recent
GA SR 83 in Good Hope, Georgia, May 2017 22017GA SR 83 in Good Hope, Georgia, May 2017 2GA SR 83 in Good Hope, Georgia, May 2017 12017GA SR 83 in Good Hope, Georgia, May 2017 1The Poppy Lady Georgia Historical Marker2015The Poppy Lady Georgia Historical Marker
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Good Hope’s post office has been open since 1839.

Gone or out of use
Good Hope Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Good Hope
Carlton Family

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

Questions about Good Hope’s history

What year was Good Hope founded?

The Good Hope post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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, 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.