Bellville

Bellville is a Georgia historical marker in Evans County, dedicated 2000.

At the intersection of GA 169 and GA 292 in Bellville.

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This town, named for area pioneer Frances Bell Smith, was founded in 1890 on property owned by Pulaski Sikes Smith, John M. Wood, and Benjamin Berrien Brewton in then Tattnall County. Town lots were platted adjacent to the newly laid tracks of the Savannah & Western Railroad. The railroad depot, constructed soon after the tracks were laid, served as the town's center of commerce and social activity. Bellville rapidly gained importance as a regional transportation hub for agricultural and timber products such as cotton, naval stores, and lumber, and as the home of Bellville Academy, established in 1890.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map IX. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Map of South Carolina (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1919 · Claxton, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Gen. map IX, 1895, covering the location of Bellville, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Gen. map IX, 1895, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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