Irwinville, GA

Irwinville, Georgia is an unincorporated town in Irwin County. Though the county seat was originally Irwinville, it has been relocated to Ocilla. Irwinville is best known as the site of Jefferson Davis's capture at the end of the Civil War. The Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site is a Georgia State Park. Irwinville was also a part of the Works Progress Administration projects in the thirties. A small lakeside recreational area, originally called Crystal Lake (later changed to Crystal Beach) operated just outside of Irwinville from the middle of the twentieth century to 1998.

See also:

Clements, J. B. "History of Irwin County." Foote & Davies Co., 1932.

External Resources:

Geographic Names Information System [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=108:3:3638827835525636::NO::P3_FID:315947]

Map of Irwinville [http://georgia.hometownlocator.com/maps/bigmap.cfm?fid=315947]

Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site [http://www.gastateparks.org/info/jeffd/]

Library of Congress photographs from the Irwinville Farms division of the WPA [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fsaSubjects24.html]

Vanishing South Georgia, a Weblog by Brian Brown [http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.wordpress.com/category/irwinville-ga/]

Photograph of Crystal Lake during the 2008 drought [http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=169034]

Geographical information about Crystal Lake [http://www.brainygeography.com/features/GA.lake/crystallake.html]