Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: BlocksMC · CC BY-SA 4.0More historic than 35% of U.S. towns · #155 of 263 in Georgia. What drives it
Most of Woodstock was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2005. Its Register listing is the Woodstock Depot. Below: maps from 1907 on and the census since 1880.
The Woodstock post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name.
More historic than 35% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Woodstock is more historic than 35% of U.S. towns, #155 of 263 in Georgia. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
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 Woodstock’s 0.3 sits below most of its state (33% of Georgia towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% 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.
Woodstock’s post office has been open since 1832.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Woodstock’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Woodstock. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Woodstock.
From Wikipedia’s history of Woodstock.
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Woodstock as a town in 1897. The community derives its name from Woodstock, an 1826 novel by Walter Scott.
The Woodstock Depot was built in 1912 by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as the town grew. The line transported cotton, rope, and other agricultural products, as well as passengers. Passenger service ended in 1949.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
Born hereBronson Rechsteiner is born here
Born hereEmma Hunt is born here
2024Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers Woodstock GA, April 20…
2021Caldwell in Woodstock City Council Chambers
2019The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta, Woodstock, GA Jan 2019
2019Downtown Woodstock, Georgia, December 2019 02
2019Downtown Woodstock, Georgia, December 2019 01
2019Dixie Speedway, Woodstock GA Nov 2019
2018Battle Group Poland Begins Multinational Live Fire Ex…
2017DJI 0038ee
2016Woodstock High School (Georgia)
2016Sweat Mountain October 2016
2016Pollo Tropical in
2016Etowah High School (Georgia)
2015Downtown
2015Buckhead, viewed from Sweat Mountain
2014Downtown
2011Woodstock, GA
2011Woodstock, GA (cropped)
2009FEMA - 42146 - Cherokee County Disaster Recovery Cent…
2008Pond - panoramio - jasonduhon
2008Pond - panoramio - jasonduhon (2)
2008Pond - panoramio - jasonduhon (1)
2008Duhon House
2008Duhon Cameron
2005GAMap-doton-WoodstockThe 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.
Grew from 92 people in 1880 to 35,065 in 2020, more than tenfold.
14 censuses, 1880–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Woodstock’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
The Woodstock post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Woodstock is more historic than 35% of U.S. towns, #155 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.
One place: the Woodstock Depot (listed 1995).
0.0% of Woodstock’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 3.8% for a Georgia town; the median home was built in 2005.
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 (24), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
