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History · Woodville

Woodville’s post office opened in 1835, and 22% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Woodville Baptist Church and School. Below: 8 old photos and papers, maps from 1965 on, and the census since 1920.

1835first post office
1on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
8old photos & papers
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From Woodville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Woodville began

When was Woodville founded?

1835

The Woodville post office opened in 1835, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 458 in 19202020 census: 264191 years
Founding year: the first Woodville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Woodville’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Deep rootsA post office since 1835: 191 years of Woodville.
★ What stands out · Timeline

Woodville, 1835 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1835Post officeThe Woodville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1941In the archiveAt a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near Woodvil
  5. 1958Post officeThe Woodville post office closes
  6. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Woodville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Woodville.

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According to tradition Woodville was so named from the fact it was a shipping point of wood. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Woodville as a city in 1911.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Woodville, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1940s8 items
At a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near Woodvil1941At a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near …At a meeting of Negro Farm Security Administration borrowers1941At a meeting of Negro Farm Security Administration bo…Church service in the Negro church, Woodville, Greene County1941Church service in the Negro church, Woodville, Greene…Mr. Ed. Downes, FSA director in Greene, Georgia, speaking on1941Mr. Ed. Downes, FSA director in Greene, Georgia, spea…Mrs. Anne Albrittan, who does washing in her home in1941Mrs. Anne Albrittan, who does washing in her home inMrs. Annie Albrittan, who does washing in her home in Woodvi1941Mrs. Annie Albrittan, who does washing in her home in…Mrs. Mary Willis, widow, who with two children runs a rented farm near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, 8c061271941Mrs. Mary Willis, widow, who with two children runs a…Mrs. Mary Willis, widow, who with two children runs a rented farm near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, 8c061271941Mrs. Mary Willis, widow, who with two children runs a…
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today1 recent
Woodville Baptist Church2021Woodville Baptist Church
On the map

Woodville on the map, 1965 to 1980

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

Woodville on the 1965 USGS mapWoodville on the 1980 USGS map1965Woodville 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 Woodville.

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.

At a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near Woodvil
Retake this viewAt a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near Woodvil, 1941

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

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Woodville

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
Woodville Baptist Church and School
Woodville Baptist Church and School
Sites

Architectural styles listings

Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals1
Colonial Revival1
Late Gothic Revival1
All 1 listings
Woodville Baptist Church and SchoolSite · listed 1999

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

People over time

Woodville, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 484

Between 264 and 484 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Woodville

Nobody well known was born in Woodville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Alice WalkerAmerican author and activist · b. 1944
Joel Chandler HarrisAmerican journalist, children's writer · b. 1848
Sonny TerryAmerican Piedmont blues musician · b. 1911
William Heard KilpatrickAmerican pedagogue · b. 1871
Edward Porter AlexanderConfederate Army general · b. 1835
Eliza Frances AndrewsAmerican writer, botanist, and teacher · b. 1840
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Woodville had its own post office from 1835 to 1958.

Woodville
1835–1958
18301930today
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Woodville
L H CookWoodville

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

Help out

Finish Woodville’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewAt a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Woodville’s history

What year was Woodville founded?

The Woodville post office opened in 1835, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Woodville?

One place: the Woodville Baptist Church and School (listed 1999).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (9), 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.