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History · Tarrytown

Tarrytown’s post office opened in 1902, and 28% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1971 on, and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
0on the National Register
28%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Tarrytown began

When was Tarrytown founded?

1902

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

First census: 236 in 19102020 census: 66124 years
Founding year: the first Tarrytown post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Tarrytown’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 298 in 1940; 66 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Tarrytown’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewGeorgia [Effingham County (part) - Newt…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Tarrytown, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 298

Peaked at 298 in 1940; 66 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Tarrytown came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Tarrytown.

Read it all →

A post office was established at Tarrytown in 1902. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Tarrytown as a town in 1912.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Tarrytown, 1902 to 1971

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Tarrytown post office opens
  3. 1940In the archiveGeorgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part)
  4. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 298
  5. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Tarrytown, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1940s1 item
Georgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part)1940Georgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (par…
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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On the map

Tarrytown on the map in 1971

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tarrytown.

Tarrytown on the 1971 USGS map1971Soperton South 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 Tarrytown.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Georgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part)
Retake this viewGeorgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part), 1940

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tarrytown’s page.

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Questions about Tarrytown’s history

What year was Tarrytown founded?

The Tarrytown 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 (1), 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.