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

McDonough has a population of 25572. 46.4% of McDonough’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.6 are female. 38.9% of McDonough is married and 50% own their own home. The Average Home price is $171,447, and the average rent is $1,197. Household median income in McDonough is $69,916, and the individual median income is $30,917. McDonough’s Ethnic is the following: Black(63.8%), White(22.5%), Hispanic(11.8%), Multiple(9%), Other(3.8%), Asian(0.9%), Native(0.1%).


The town was named for naval officer Commodore Thomas Macdonough and founded in 1823 around a traditional town square design. The buildings surrounding the square are intact, although there are some vacancies. The county courthouse and historic jail building are on the north side near the Welcome Center in a historically maintained Standard Oil service station, built in 1920.


The station also houses the Main Street Program Office and Hospitality and Tourism Office. One block east of the square, the town's original cotton warehouse has been replaced with the Henry County Judicial Center. In the same area the Henry County Courthouse Annex has an original oil on canvas "Cotton Gin" (4+1⁄2 by 11 feet) by artist Jean Charlot.


He painted this oil in 1942 for the town post office. His works can be found all over the world in everything from children's books to large murals. The town was a relay station on the New York City to New Orleans stagecoach line and was connected by other stage lines with Fayetteville and Decatur, and with Macon by way of Jackson.On June 23, 1900, a washout during a thunderstorm caused a train wreck about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of town on the Camp Creek Bridge.


The runoff undermined about 100 feet (30 m) of the Georgia Southern Railroad (Macon division) prior to the accident, and the passenger train subsequently caught fire, killing 39. This was one of the worst train crashes in American history and is known as the Camp Creek train wreck. It was featured on an episode of the paranormal TV series Haunted Towns in 2017. Several individual buildings and two historic districts in the city are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the downtown McDonough Historic District.


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