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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Darien (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Darien. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Darien ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

In past government published Postal Guides, Darien was referred to as Darien Courthouse.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Darien. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Darien.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

For more information about how community names might have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Darien is located in McIntosh County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of Georgia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McIntosh County: Glynn, Liberty, Long & Wayne.

Below are the counties that are near Darien. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Darien:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Darien, see our County-by-County Page for Darien.

Cemeteries Near Darien ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Darien.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Darien - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Darien covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Darien, with the one closest to Darien listed first.

  • Upper Mill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Butler Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Whispering Pines Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Powell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Old Slave Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Petersville Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • King Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Hudson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Cuthbert - Grant Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Freedman Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
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    • Memory Gardens
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Hutchinson Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Robson Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Darien had a population of 1,491 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Darien had a population of 1,846 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Darien, with the one closest to Darien listed first.

  • Ridgeville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Ridgeville is located in McIntosh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeville
  • Evelyn
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Evelyn is located in Glynn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evelyn
  • Doboy ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Doboy is located in McIntosh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doboy
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 7,721 people
  • Pennick
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Pennick is located in Glynn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennick
  • Dock Junction
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Dock Junction is located in Glynn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dock Junction
  • Jamaica
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jamaica is located in Glynn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamaica
  • Brunswick
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Mount Pleasant
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Mount Pleasant is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
  • Fancy Bluff
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Fancy Bluff is located in Glynn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fancy Bluff
  • South Newport
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • South Newport is located in McIntosh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Newport
  • Ella Park ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Ella Park is located in Camden County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ella Park
    • Estimated population in 2019: 1,867 people
  • Riceboro
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
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    • Gardi
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Gardi is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardi
    • Walthourville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Dorchester
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Dorchester is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Darien. See our List of 1890's Communities around Darien.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Darien ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Darien.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Darien. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Darien and those printed in the larger area surrounding Darien.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> of Darien.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Darien:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Darien, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Darien) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.