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History · Pooler

Pooler’s post office opened in 1887

More historic than 13% of U.S. towns · #215 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it

Most of Pooler was built recently: 0.9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2007. Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1910.

1887first post office
0on the National Register
0.9%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Pooler began

When was Pooler founded?

1887

The Pooler post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 337 in 19102020 census: 25,711139 years

How historic is Pooler?

D

More historic than 13% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Pooler post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Pooler’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Pooler is more historic than 13% of U.S. towns, #215 of 263 in Georgia. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Pooler’s overall grade.
Founding era1887, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19400.9% of homes (±1.1) · typical GA town 3.8% · U.S. 8.4%DNational RegisterNo listings counted · typical GA town 10.0 per 10,000 · U.S. 2.4C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 13%
NewerOlder
Georgia towns of 2,500+ (263)Ahead of 18%

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 Pooler’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (16% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be D. The pre-1940 share (±1.1 points) is firm at this size. 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 →

What stands out about Pooler’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 Pooler are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages6 hamlets and corners are still on the map.
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Start Pooler’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pooler’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Pooler’s post office has been open since 1887.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Bachelors Mobile Home ParkGarden Acres EstatesHamerStarland ParkTutensWilliams
Gone or out of use
Saint Paul Churchchurch
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Pooler
BethelEnnis

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Pooler came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Pooler.

Read it all →

The city was named for railroad employee Robert William Pooler.

During the Civil War, Pooler was a railway stop called Pooler's Station—the last stop before Savannah on the Central of Georgia Railway. In December 1864, Pooler was a meeting place for Union officers led by William Tecumseh Sherman, who negotiated with Savannah authorities for the strategic port city's peaceful surrender.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Pooler, 1887 to 1987

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1887Post officeThe Pooler post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1987Born hereChris Rearick is born here
By decade

Pooler, decade by decade

Today18 recent
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On the map

Pooler on the map, 1955 to 1980

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pooler. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Pooler on the 1955 USGS mapPooler on the 1971 USGS mapPooler on the 1980 USGS map1955Garden City 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 Pooler.

People over time

Pooler, census by census

05,00010,00015,00020,00025,00019201940196019802000202025,711

Grew from 337 people in 1910 to 25,711 in 2020, more than tenfold.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

BloomingdaleIts storyC−Savannah52 historic placesA+

Questions about Pooler’s history

What year was Pooler founded?

The Pooler post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Pooler rank for history?

Pooler is more historic than 13% of U.S. towns, #215 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.

How old are the homes in Pooler?

0.9% of Pooler’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.1 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 2007.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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).

From Wikimedia Commons (18), 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.