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Most of Jakin was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Its Register listings are the Jane Donalson Harrell House and the Bank of Jakin. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1974 on, and the census since 1900.
The Jakin post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jakin’s history is told.
Peaked at 622 in 1910; 131 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Jakin’s Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Jakin.
Early County was created by an act of the General Assembly on December 15, 1818. Land lots of 250 acres (1.0 km2) surveyed in 1819 and 1820 were distributed by the state in lotteries. Jakin is in the 26th land district in the southernmost end of the county.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltJane Donalson Harrell House is built
Born hereEunice Rivers Laurie is born here
In the archiveFlorida [Sarasota County (part) - Washington County] -- Georgia [Appling County - Effingh…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jakin. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jakin.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Jakin’s page.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
The Jakin post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Jane Donalson Harrell House (listed 1982) and the Bank of Jakin (2003).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (11), 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) 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.
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