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Starrsville Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location	near Dixie Road and County Road 213 southeast of Covington, Georgia
Coordinates	33°32′02″N 83°48′16″W / 33.533786°N 83.804473°W / 33.533786; -83.804473
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	98000715
Added to NRHP	June 26, 1998

Starrsville is an unincorporated community in an exurban area 5.4 miles (8.7 km) southeast of Covington, Newton County, Georgia, United States.

History

Starrsville was founded by the Starr and Epps families in 1821 and is mentioned as early as the 1820s for its "good schools". The post office opened in 1836.

Young John Allen, the Methodist missionary, attended high school here. Warren Akin Candler (of the Coca-Cola Candlers) described Allen's conversion to Christianity while attending high school at Looney's school in Starrsville in September 1853.

The Central of Georgia Railway arrived in 1890 and the area came to be known as New Starrsville.

In 1900 Starsville had a population of 57, with a "money order post office,... several good stores, and express office and (sic) does some shipping".

In 1909 Starrsville was noted for its brick plant.

The post office closed in 1976. The area is now in the midst of the exurban development of the Covington area which is part of Metro Atlanta.

Starrsville contains the Starrsville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In addition to the historic buildings in the Historic District there is also a Starrsville Plantation (now hosting events) and both Starrsville and Epps cemeteries in the area.

External links

• "Starrsville Historic District", National Register of Historic Places.com
• "History", "History of Starrsville", Starrsville United Methodist Church

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Krakow, Kenneth K. (1975). Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins (PDF). Macon, GA: Winship Press. p. 212. ISBN 0-915430-00-2.
3. George Gilman Smith, "The story of Georgia and the Georgia people, 1732 to 1860", p.340
4. Warren Akin Candler,Young J. Allen, the man who seeded China
5. Mildred Lewis Rutherford The South in history and literature: a hand-book of southern authors, p. 775
6. Allen Daniel Candler, Clement Anselm Evans (eds.), Georgia: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions
7. Bulletin - Geological Survey, Issue 18 By Georgia. Dept. of Mines, Mining, and Geology
8. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
9. Federal Register, Volume 63 Issue 110 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)

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