Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Woodmanston Site. Most of Riceboro was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1987. Below: old-book passages.
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 Riceboro’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Riceboro.
The community was named for the early rice industry in the area. Riceboro served as the second seat of Liberty County from 1789 until 1837.
The Georgia General Assembly first incorporated the place as the "Village of Riceborough" in 1819.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Riceboro, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Mr. William Fleming, its first settler, and also one of the deacons of the church. So the people in the neighborhood of Riceboro, on the south, went across Bulltown swamp into the edge of McIntosh county and formed a settlement there in the piney woods, some eight miles from the church, and named it ‘‘Jonesville,”’ in honor of Mr. Samuel Jones, its first settler. Some few of the families also settled at Cannouchee Bluff and Taylor’s Creek, still further northward
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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.
Riceboro’s post office has been open since 1799. Another post office, Retreat, 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).
One place: the Woodmanston Site (listed 1973).
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
