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History · Luthersville

Luthersville’s post office opened in 1837, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1971 on and the census since 1880.

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0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Luthersville began

When was Luthersville founded?

1837

The Luthersville post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 179 in 18802020 census: 776189 years
Founding year: the first Luthersville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Luthersville’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 Luthersville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1837: 189 years of Luthersville.
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Start Luthersville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Luthersville’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.
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Timeline

Luthersville, 1837 to 1971

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1837Post officeThe Luthersville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1938Born hereRobert Ward is born here
  5. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Luthersville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Luthersville.

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The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Luthersville as a town in 1872. The community was named after the 16th-century German reformer Martin Luther.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Luthersville, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Businesses on Oak Street at Main Street2025Businesses on Oak Street at Main StreetLUTHERSVILLE, GEORGIA2013LUTHERSVILLE, GEORGIAPedestrian crossing button2007Pedestrian crossing buttonLuthersville22007Luthersville2Luthersville2007LuthersvilleGAMap-doton-Luthersville2005GAMap-doton-Luthersville
On the map

Luthersville on the map in 1971

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Luthersville.

Luthersville on the 1971 USGS map1971Luthersville sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Luthersville, census by census

020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 874

Between 179 and 874 people in every census since 1880.

14 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Questions about Luthersville’s history

What year was Luthersville founded?

The Luthersville post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 (6), 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.