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Vinings’ post office opened in 1904, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 10% of U.S. towns · #231 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it

Most of Vinings was built recently: 0.1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1996. Its Register listing is the Solomon and Penelopy Pace House. Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1990.

1904first post office
1on the National Register
0.1%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Vinings began

When was Vinings founded?

1904

The Vinings post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Cross Roads (1839) and Vining Station (1868), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 7,417 in 19902020 census: 12,581122 years

How historic is Vinings?

D

More historic than 10% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Vinings post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Vinings’ History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Vinings is more historic than 10% of U.S. towns, #231 of 263 in Georgia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

D
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Vinings’ overall grade.
Founding era1904, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 19400.1% of homes (±0.2) · typical GA town 3.8% · U.S. 8.4%DNational Register1 listing, 0.7 per 10,000 residents · typical GA town 10.0 · U.S. 2.4C+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 10%
NewerOlder
Georgia towns of 2,500+ (263)Ahead of 12%

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 Vinings’ 0.7 sits near the middle of its state (35% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C−. The pre-1940 share (±0.2 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

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 →

What stands out about Vinings’ 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 Vinings are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Vinings, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vinings’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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Vinings had its own post office from 1904 to 1954. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Cross Roads
1839–1874
Vining Station
1868–1904
Vinings
1904–1954
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
RiverwoodStonewall
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Vinings
PaceVinings

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

The story

How Vinings came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Vinings.

Read it all →

Early on, Vinings was known as Crossroads, and then Paces, after Hardy Pace, circa 1830. He operated Pace's Ferry across the Chattahoochee River, in this area between Atlanta, Buckhead, and Smyrna. Paces Ferry Road is still the main east–west road through Vinings. The Western and Atlantic Railroad laid rail tracks from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Atlanta in the 1840s. Vinings became a construction station for the railroad, and was inadvertently named for William H. Vining, as he worked on the railroad construction of "Vining's Bridge" laying tracks in the area. The railroad is still state-owned as it was from the beginning, and is now leased to CSX.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Vinings, 1839 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Cross Roads post office opens
  3. 1868Post officeThe Vining Station post office opens
  4. 1874Post officeThe Cross Roads post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Vining Station post office closes
  7. 1904Post officeThe Vinings post office opens
  8. 1954Post officeThe Vinings post office closes
  9. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Vinings, decade by decade

Today12 recent
Blue Heron in2022Blue Heron inMount Wilkinson Parkway SE, GA, USA, 12019Mount Wilkinson Parkway SE, GA, USA, 1Solomon and Penelopy Pace House2017Solomon and Penelopy Pace HouseMount Wilkinson, Vinings, Georgia 22015Mount Wilkinson, Vinings, Georgia 2Mount Wilkinson, Vinings, Georgia 12015Mount Wilkinson, Vinings, Georgia 1High rises on Mount Wilkinson2015High rises on Mount WilkinsonHome Depot Store Support Center & Corporate HQ2012Home Depot Store Support Center & Corporate HQOrient Express - panoramio (1)2011Orient Express - panoramio (1)Commanding View2011Commanding ViewThe Peak at Vinings Pool2010The Peak at Vinings PoolBuckhead skyline from2007Buckhead skyline fromGAMap-doton-Vinings2005GAMap-doton-Vinings
On the map

Vinings on the map, 1954 to 1993

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

Vinings on the 1954 USGS mapVinings on the 1968 USGS mapVinings on the 1973 USGS mapVinings on the 1983 USGS mapVinings on the 1993 USGS map1954Bolton 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 Vinings.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Vinings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2009
Solomon and Penelopy Pace House
Solomon and Penelopy Pace House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Folk Victorian1
Gabled Wing Cottage1
Solomon and Penelopy Pace HouseFolk Victorian

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Vinings, census by census

02,0004,0006,0008,00010,00012,00014,00020002020Peak: 12,581

Between 7,417 and 12,581 people in every census since 1990.

4 censuses, 1990–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Atlanta231 historic placesA

Questions about Vinings’ history

What year was Vinings founded?

The Vinings post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Vinings rank for history?

Vinings is more historic than 10% of U.S. towns, #231 of 263 in Georgia. 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.

What is on the National Register in Vinings?

One place: the Solomon and Penelopy Pace House (listed 2009).

How old are the homes in Vinings?

0.1% of Vinings’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 1996.

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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).

From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (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.