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Lovejoy, GA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Lovejoy  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lovejoy Home page. The Lovejoy Home page provides as much information as possible on Lovejoy. Knowing Lovejoy’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lovejoy’s Home page, you will also find Lovejoy’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lovejoy has a population of 6511. 40% of Lovejoy’s inhabitants are Male, and 60 are female. 24% of Lovejoy is married and 56.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $147,100, and the average rent is $1,191. Household median income in Lovejoy is $51,557, and the individual median income is $24,758. Lovejoy’s Ethnic is the following: Black(74.9%), White(17.5%), Hispanic(8%), Multiple(6.2%), Other(1.1%), Native(0.2%), Asian(0.1%).


Around 1850, the location just north of Fosterville, GA, was positioned along the new railway from Atlanta to Macon. The trainstop there was named for a prosperous local planter, James Lankford Lovejoy. On early maps, the location is called "Lovejoys." It became known as Lovejoy's Station by 1864, where it was the setting of a civil war battle during Sherman's campaign through Georgia.


James Lovejoy left the region and died in Clinch County, Georgia in 1877. The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Lovejoy as a town in 1891.In 1979, Betty Talmadge, former first-lady of Georgia, purchased the remnants of the Hollywood set "Tara," the fictional plantation featured in Gone With the Wind, and brought them to Lovejoy.


The main road through Lovejoy today is named "Tara Blvd." The remnants of Tara are available to be toured at the Lovejoy Plantation through www.savingtara.com.


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