The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Around the turn of the 20th century, a small crossroads community called Frog Wallow was developing in southeast Burke County. With the construction of the Savannah & Atlanta Railway, the tiny town lay on the new railroad connecting the two large hubs. In 1912, the town was incorporated as Sardis by the Georgia Legislature, named after the Baptist church that had flourished in the town over the past decades. The church's name, in turn, is a transfer from Sardis, an ancient city in present-day Turkey.
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Start Sardis’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Sardis’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Sardis, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Sardis is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Sardis has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery in Girard, 3.5 miles away.
Sardis and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.