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History · Rebecca

Rebecca’s post office opened in 1902, and 32% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1974 on and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Rebecca began

When was Rebecca founded?

1902

The Rebecca post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 252 in 19102020 census: 208124 years
Founding year: the first Rebecca post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Rebecca’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 Rebecca are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 342 in 1940; 208 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rebecca’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Rebecca, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 342

Peaked at 342 in 1940; 208 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Rebecca came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Rebecca.

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The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Rebecca as a town in 1904. The community was named after Rebecca Sharron, the daughter of a local resident. A post office called Rebecca has been in operation since 1902. The Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog originated in Rebecca, where they were first bred by the Lane family.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Rebecca, 1902 to 1974

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Rebecca post office opens
  3. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 342
  4. 1974On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Rebecca, decade by decade

Today15 recent
Rebecca park swings2021Rebecca park swingsRebecca park picnic shelter2021Rebecca park picnic shelterRebecca city limit GA112 SB2021Rebecca city limit GA112 SBRebecca Water Tower2021Rebecca Water TowerRebecca Post Office2021Rebecca Post OfficeRebecca Methodist Church2021Rebecca Methodist ChurchRebecca Community Center2021Rebecca Community CenterRebecca City Hall2021Rebecca City HallPleasant Hill Baptist Church2021Pleasant Hill Baptist ChurchPleasant Hill Baptist Church cemetery2021Pleasant Hill Baptist Church cemeteryPiney Grove Baptist Church2021Piney Grove Baptist ChurchSolar panels2014Solar panelsRebecca limit, GA112N2014Rebecca limit, GA112NLooking West at Ashley St E RR Crossing2014Looking West at Ashley St E RR CrossingGAMap-doton-Rebecca2005GAMap-doton-Rebecca
On the map

Rebecca on the map, 1974 to 1981

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

Rebecca on the 1974 USGS mapRebecca on the 1981 USGS map1974Rebecca 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 Rebecca.

Famous people

Famous people close to Rebecca

Nobody well known was born in Rebecca itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Roger KingdomAmerican hurdler · b. 1962
Sue Monk KiddNovelist · b. 1948
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Hank MobleyAmerican saxophonist · b. 1930
Forrest TownsAmerican hurdler · b. 1914
Vincent ShermanAmerican film director · b. 1906
Betty ShabazzAmerican educator and wife of Malcolm X · b. 1934
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Rebecca’s post office has been open since 1902.

Gone or out of use
Rebecca Consolidated High Schoolschool

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

Questions about Rebecca’s history

What year was Rebecca founded?

The Rebecca post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (15), Wikipedia, 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.