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More historic than 94% of U.S. towns. What drives it
3 places in town are on the National Register, among them two historic districts with 279 buildings between them. Below: 4 old photos and papers from 1914 on.
The Union Point post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 94% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Union Point is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its National Register listings ranks highest and its share of homes from before 1940 lowest.
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 Union Point’s 1,667 sits above most of its state (99% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 284 historic buildings outnumber those of 95% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: the first post office (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 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Union Point’s history is told.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveJennie Hart Sibley (History of the Georgia W.C.T.U., 1914)
Born hereLuke Graham is born here
In the archiveDaughter of Mr. Buck Grant, preacher and FSA borrower, 8c05936From Wikipedia’s history of Union Point.
Union Point was laid out in 1834, when the railroad was extended to that point. The name "Union Point" reflects the fact a railroad junction ("union" of rails) met at the site.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Union Point as a city in 1904.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No 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 Union Point’s page.
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The Union Point post office opened in 1839, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Union Point is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns. 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.
Three places: the Peter W. Printup Plantation (listed 1985), the Union Manufacturing Company (1989) and the Union Point Historic District (1991).
23% of Union Point’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.4 points), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1966.
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 (4), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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