The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office was established at Smithville in 1871. The community was named after the local Smith family. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Smithville as a town in 1863.
The Morgan Farm is located near Smithville, and is a late-19th century historic, rural African American farmstead recognized as a Centennial Farm (1995) by the state of Georgia, and listed as on the National Register of Historic Places (1998).
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Smithville’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Smithville’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewGeorgia [Effingham County (part) …, 1940: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Smithville
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Smithville, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Smithville is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Smithville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Webb Family Farm in Smithville, 2.7 miles away.
Smithville and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Georgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part) (1940) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.