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Tallulah Falls Depot · Photo: Blastoids · CC BY-SA 3.02 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 11 buildings. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1886 on, and the census since 1890.
The Tallulah Falls post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Lodge (1900) and Tallulah Lodge (1903), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
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 Tallulah Falls’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tallulah Falls. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tallulah Falls.
Lost half of its people between 1890 and 1940, then more than doubled.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tallulah Falls’ Wikipedia page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Tallulah Falls.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Tallulah Falls as a town in 1885. The community took its name from a nearby waterfall on the Tallulah River, which today is submerged beneath the waters of Tallulah Falls Lake.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltTallulah Falls School is builtNo then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tallulah Falls’ page.
Retake this view · +15The 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 Tallulah Falls itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Tallulah Falls’s post office has been open since 1888. Two other post offices 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).
The Tallulah Falls post office opened in 1888, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Two places: the Tallulah Falls Depot (listed 1988) and the Tallulah Falls School (1992).
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 Library of Congress (2), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.
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