The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Leslie was founded in 1884. The community was named after one Leslie Bailey. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Leslie in 1892.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Leslie’s history is told.
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Before
2000
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Leslie is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Leslie has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Liberty Hall in Smithville, 7 miles away.
Leslie and the nearest listed places
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Closest to Leslie
Liberty HallSmithville · Building7miNew Corinth Baptist ChurchDe Soto · Building7.8miWebb Family FarmSmithville · Built 187010.4miThird District A & M School-Georgia Southwestern College Historic DistrictAmericus · District10.4miAmericus Historic District (Boundary Increase)Americus · District11.2mi
How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Liberty Hall’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Leslie?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Leslie’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.