Most of Homerville was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1965. Its Register listings are the Clinch County Jail and the Clinch County Courthouse. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1978 on, and the census since 1880.
Founding year: the first Homerville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
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What drives Homerville’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Homerville is more historic than 34% of U.S. towns. 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 Homerville’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 Homerville’s 8.2 sits near the middle of its state (51% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.9 points). 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 →
Clinch County was created on February 14, 1850, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, and was named for General Duncan Lamont Clinch, a decorated United States brigadier general and Georgia congressman who had recently died. Clinch, Georgia's 95th county, was formed from land originally inhabited by the Oconee people and consolidated portions of Ware County and Lowndes County. The act creating the county named Elijah Mattox, Simon W. Nichol, Timothy Kirkland, Benjamin Sirmans, and John J. Johnson as commissioners charged with selecting a county seat and constructing a courthouse.
Passages that mention Homerville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Clinch County, Georgia, revised to date, giving the early history of the county down to the present time (1916)1916 · page 298Read the page →
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Mr. Strickland was one of the first settlers of the new town of Homerville, and was engaged in the mercantile business and also operated a hotel a while. He was station agent here several years. He was elected a justice of the Inferior Court in 1 86 1 and commissioned September loth, 1861. He served four years. About 1880 he removed to Plant City, Florida, where he died about 1890. Mr. Strickland was a leading member of the Baptist Church at Homerville and was a
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History of Clinch County, Georgia, revised to date, giving the early history of the county down to the present time (1916)1916 · page 85Read the page →
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It is safe to say that had the people of Homerville and the county seized the opportunity and offered the necessary inducements, and this road had come through Homerville instead of Valdosta, in that event Homerville might have been the size of Valdosta at present, while Valdosta would have been the size of Homerville.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Homerville, 1854 to 1978
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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 Homerville post office opened in 1854, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Homerville rank for history?
Homerville is more historic than 34% of U.S. towns. 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 Homerville?
Two places: the Clinch County Jail (listed 1980) and the Clinch County Courthouse (1980).
How old are the homes in Homerville?
4% of Homerville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.9 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1965.
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 (13), the Library of Congress (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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 old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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