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More historic than 56% of U.S. towns · #93 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Its Register listings are the Alexander Hotel and the Smith-Nelson Hotel. Most of Reidsville was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1970 on and the census since 1880.
Reidsville dates its founding to 1828 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1880.
More historic than 56% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Reidsville is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns, #93 of 263 in Georgia. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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 Reidsville’s 31.3 sits near the middle of its state (64% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 8 historic buildings outnumber those of 74% of U.S. towns.
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 →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Reidsville’s history is told.
Peaked at 4,944 in 2010; 2,515 people lived here in 2020.
14 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Reidsville’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereDwight Laing Rogers is born here
Born hereJack Hill is born here
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of Reidsville.
Reidsville was founded in about 1828 and was designated county seat of Tattnall County in 1832 by the Georgia General Assembly. It was incorporated as a town in 1838 and as a city in 1905. The city was named after Robert R. Reid, territorial governor of Florida.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2018Reidsville Post Office
2018Reidsville Police Car
2018Reidsville Fire Department
2018Reidsville Elementary School
2018Reidsville City Hall
2018Peace Officers Association of Georgia
2018Optim Medical Center, Tattnall
2018Optim Medical Center, Tattnall helipad
2018Huddle House
2018Gordonia Altamaha State Park sign
2018GA56EB end
2018GA147 End
2018Fred's
2018Former post office
2018Farm Bureau, Tattnall County
2018Bradford pear tree
20181996 Olympic Torch Relay plaque
2005GAMap-doton-ReidsvilleThe U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Reidsville.
1970Reidsville East sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Reidsville.
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.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
In 1828, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Reidsville’s post office opened in 1832, and the census of 1880 counted 106 people here.
Reidsville is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns, #93 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.
Two places: the Alexander Hotel (listed 1982) and the Smith-Nelson Hotel (2001).
2% of Reidsville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.6 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1982.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (18), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
