Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Ritch-Carter-Martin House. Below: 5 old photos and papers from 1993 on.
The Odum post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Haslum (1871), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
From Wikipedia’s history of Odum.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Odum as a town in 1907. The community was named after Godfrey Odum, an early settler. The first Mayor was Dr. J. T. Colvin. J. A. Odum was an early councilman.
The Ritch–Carter–Martin House in Odum was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltRitch-Carter-Martin House is built
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The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Odum itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Odum’s post office has been open since 1887. Another post office, Haslum, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
The Odum post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Ritch-Carter-Martin House (listed 1998).
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 (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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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