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History · Woodbury

Woodbury’s post office opened in 1845, and 24% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1934 on, and the census since 1880.

1845first post office
0on the National Register
24%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Woodbury’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Woodbury began

When was Woodbury founded?

1845

The Woodbury post office opened in 1845, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 94 in 18802020 census: 908181 years
Founding year: the first Woodbury post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Woodbury’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 1,738 in 1980; 908 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Woodbury’s homes were built before 1954.Deep rootsA post office since 1845: 181 years of Woodbury.
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Start Woodbury’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewRed Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Re…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Woodbury, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,4001,6001,80018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,738

Peaked at 1,738 in 1980; 908 people lived here in 2020.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

The story

How Woodbury came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Woodbury.

Read it all →

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Woodbury in 1913. The community most likely was named after Levi Woodbury (1789–1851), American justice on the United States Supreme Court.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Woodbury, 1845 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1845Post officeThe Woodbury post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1934On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 1,738
By decade

Woodbury, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (Covered Bridge Road)Date?Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, H…
On the map

Woodbury on the map, 1934 to 1971

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

Woodbury on the 1934 USGS mapWoodbury on the 1971 USGS map1934Warm Springs sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Woodbury.

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.

Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (Covered Bridge Road)
Retake this viewRed Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (Covered Bridge Road)

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

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Questions about Woodbury’s history

What year was Woodbury founded?

The Woodbury post office opened in 1845, 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 the Library of Congress (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.