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Welcome to Lisbon ...So far, we found very little information about Lisbon. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Lisbon to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lisbon, please Contact Us. Lisbon would have been located within present day Lincoln County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Lisbon, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Lisbon, you might consider that their post office opened in 1844. The community was inundated by the J. Strom Thurmond Lake. While the community is gone, the present day location for Lisbon is 400 feet [122 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Lisbon was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Lisbon would have been located in the (706) & (762)<5> area codes. Websites for Lisbon ...Chamber of Commerce: www.lincolncountyga.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Lisbon, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Lisbon ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Georgia communities named Lisbon: This one is located in Lincoln County and the other is located in Walker County. Beyond Georgia, there are 34 communities that are also named Lisbon - they are located in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas (3), Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico (2), New York, North Carolina (2), North Dakota, Ohio (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina (2), Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lisbon. Communities near Lisbon ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lisbon.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Lisbon. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lisbon. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lisbon. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lisbon. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lisbon. See our Newspapers Page for Lisbon. Adding Lisbon to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Lisbon in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Lisbon was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<8> We also found Lisbon on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Georgia (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Lisbon. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Lincoln County: www.lincolncountyga.com The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/ Footnotes ...
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