Woodbury, Georgia

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Woodbury is a city in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States. The population was 908 at the 2020 census.<ref name="Census 2020"/>

History

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Woodbury in 1913.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The community most likely was named after Levi Woodbury (1789–1851), American justice on the United States Supreme Court.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Geography

Woodbury is located in southeastern Meriwether County at Template:Coord (32.980588, -84.580979).<ref name="GR1">Template:Cite web</ref> Georgia State Routes 18, 74, 85, and 109 pass through the city. Route 18 leads northwest Template:Convert to Greenville, the county seat, and northeast Template:Convert to Zebulon. Route 74 goes east out of Woodbury with Route 18 but leads southeast Template:Convert to Thomaston; to the north Route 74 leads Template:Convert to Gay. Route 85 goes north to Gay with Route 74 but also leads south Template:Convert to Manchester. Route 85 Alternate runs through the north side of Woodbury and leads southwest Template:Convert to Warm Springs. Route 109 follows Route 18 both northwest and east out of Woodbury but leads east Template:Convert to Barnesville.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Woodbury has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert, or 1.43%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2022"/> The Flint River passes Template:Convert east of the city, and Pine Mountain rises three miles to the south.

Demographics

File:Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (Cov, Woodbury vicinity (Meriwether County, Georgia)).jpg

The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge is located just north of Woodbury. Built in the 1840s by the famed Georgia bridge builder, Horace King, with its approaches the Red Oak Covered Bridge is the longest in Georgia and the only one of King's bridges that is still in use today. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1973.

Woodbury racial composition as of 2020<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Race	Num.	Perc.
White (non-Hispanic)	348	38.33%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic)	504	55.51%
Native American	2	0.22%
Asian	1	0.11%
Pacific Islander	1	0.11%
Other/Mixed	36	3.96%
Hispanic or Latino	16	1.76%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 908 people, 456 households, and 260 families residing in the city.

In popular culture

• Woodbury is featured prominently in The Walking Dead comic book franchise as a fortified survivor settlement run by a leader called The Governor during a zombie apocalypse. In the television series of the same name, the Woodbury scenes were filmed in Senoia, Template:Convert to the north.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Woodbury is the primary setting of The Walking Dead novel series which follows the lives of the residents both before and after Woodbury's appearance in the comic book series. The novels focus on the town's reign under the Governor, the aftermath, and the residents' fight against various enemies, including the undead, doomsday cultists, and a militia that attacks to abduct the town's children for experimentation on finding a cure to the zombie virus.
• Woodbury also appears in The Walking Dead: Destinies video game which adapts part of the TV series season 3 storyline regarding the town.

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