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History · Turin

Turin’s post office opened in 1857

Most of Turin was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2018. Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1890.

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How Turin began

When was Turin founded?

1857

The Turin post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Location (1837), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 161 in 18902020 census: 347169 years
Founding year: the first Turin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Turin’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 Turin are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost a third of its people between 1910 and 1940, then more than doubled.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Turin’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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People over time

Turin, census by census

01002003001900192019401960198020002020263 in 1910Low: 146

Lost a third of its people between 1910 and 1940, then more than doubled.

14 censuses, 1890–2020.

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

The story

How Turin came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Turin.

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The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Turin as a town in 1890. The town's name is a transfer from Turin, in Italy.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Turin, 1837 to 2020

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1837Post officeThe Location post office opens
  3. 1856Born hereCharles L. Moses is born here
  4. 1857Post officeThe Turin post office opens
  5. 1859Post officeThe Location post office closes
  6. 20th century
  7. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 21st century
  9. 2020CensusPopulation peaks at 347
By decade

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Weddings 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

Turin on the map, 1965 to 1982

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

Turin on the 1965 USGS mapTurin on the 1979 USGS mapTurin on the 1982 USGS map1965Sharpsburg 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 Turin.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Turin’s post office has been open since 1857. Another post office, Location, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Location
1837–1859
Turin
1857–today
18301930today

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

SharpsburgIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Turin’s history

What year was Turin founded?

The Turin post office opened in 1857, 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 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.