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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Springhaven. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Springhaven to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Springhaven, please Contact Us.

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 Springhaven (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 Springhaven. 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.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Springhaven is historic, it would have been located within present day Laurens County.

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 Laurens County: Bleckley, Dodge, Johnson, Treutlen, Twiggs, Wheeler & Wilkinson.

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

  • Laurens County     (The home county of Springhaven)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Dexter
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Rentz
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Dudley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Cadwell
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Dublin
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Montrose
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • East Dublin
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cedar Grove
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Laurens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Rockledge
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Midway
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Midway is located in Laurens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,061 people
    • Tuckers Crossroad
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Tuckers Crossroad is located in Laurens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckers Crossroad
    • Lovett
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Lovett is located in Laurens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovett
  • Bleckley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Allentown
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cochran
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Royal
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Royal is located in Bleckley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,571 people
  • Dodge County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Bryant
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Bryant is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryant
    • Chester
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Plainfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Yonkers
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Yonkers is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yonkers
    • Empire
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Empire is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
    • Eastman
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Chauncey
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Johnson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Adrian
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Wrightsville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Montgomery County
    • Tarrytown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Pulaski County
    • Hawkinsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Telfair County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Helena
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • McRae - Helena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • McRae
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • McRae is located in Telfair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRae
    • Milan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Scotland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Treutlen County
    • Soperton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Twiggs County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Danville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jeffersonville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Marion
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Marion is located in Twiggs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Gardner
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Gardner is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardner
      • Estimated population in 2019: 201 people
    • Oconee
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Wheeler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Alamo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Alamo is located in Wheeler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,301 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alamo <2>
    • Glenwood
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Ochwalkee
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Ochwalkee is located in Wheeler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochwalkee
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,732 people
  • Wilkinson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springhaven, with the one closest to Springhaven listed first.
    • Beech Hill
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Beech Hill is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Hill
    • Irwinton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Toomsboro
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • McIntyre
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Dedrich
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Dedrich is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dedrich
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,146 people

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

Cemeteries Near Springhaven ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Springhaven.

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 Springhaven - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Alligood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • St. Lukes Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Dexter Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Brown Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Brown Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southwest of Dublin.
  • Buckhorn Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Mullis Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Coleman Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Dublin Memorial Gardens
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Register Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Hobbs Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Pearson Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (281 more) ...
    • Pope Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Grant Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Heath 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.

Springhaven itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Dexter
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Nameless
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Nameless is located in Laurens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nameless
  • Dudley
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Chester
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Dublin
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Beehive ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Beehive is located in Dodge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beehive
  • Condor
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Condor is located in Laurens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Condor
  • Westbrook ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Westbrook is located in Laurens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westbrook
  • Walkee ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Walkee is located in Laurens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkee
  • Tweed
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Tweed is located in Laurens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tweed
  • Allentown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Carne ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Carne is located in Dodge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carne
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Hatoff ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Hatoff is located in Laurens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatoff
    • Empire
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Empire is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
    • Dubois
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Dubois is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dubois

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

Newspapers Published in Springhaven ...

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 Springhaven.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Springhaven, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Springhaven.

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 helpful websites 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 Springhaven:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Springhaven, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Springhaven) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.