Lovejoy dates to 1861, and 1 of its places is on the National Register
More historic than 19% of U.S. towns · #201 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Most of Lovejoy was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2008. Its Register listing is the Crawford-Dorsey House and Cemetery. Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1910.
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1950.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Lovejoy’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Lovejoy is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns, #201 of 263 in Georgia. 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 Lovejoy’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 Lovejoy’s 0.9 sits near the middle of its state (36% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.
NoteThe founding year comes from Wikipedia alone; no second source gives 1861.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C. The pre-1940 share (±0.6 points) is firm at this size.
Founding year: Wikipedia (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 →
What stands out about Lovejoy’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Around 1850, the location just north of Fosterville, Georgia was positioned along the new railway from Atlanta to Macon. The trainstop there was named for a prosperous local planter, James Lankford Lovejoy. On early maps, the location is called "Lovejoys." It became known as Lovejoy's Station by 1864, where it was the setting of a civil war battle during Sherman's campaign through Georgia. James Lovejoy left the region and died in Clinch County, Georgia in 1877.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Lovejoy as a town in 1891.
In 1861, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Lovejoy’s post office opened in 1950, and the census of 1910 counted 198 people here.
How does Lovejoy rank for history?
Lovejoy is more historic than 19% of U.S. towns, #201 of 263 in Georgia. 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 Lovejoy?
One place: the Crawford-Dorsey House and Cemetery (listed 1984).
How old are the homes in Lovejoy?
0.0% of Lovejoy’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 2008.
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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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