Town file
Grovetown, Georgia
Grovetown, Georgia (Columbia County, Georgia) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 558, "Helping Mom With Murder" (28 December 2024). Grovetown is a small town in Columbia County in eastern Georgia, about twenty minutes from Augusta and close to the South Carolina border, with a population of around 15,600.
- Town
- Grovetown
- County
- Columbia County
- State
- Georgia
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 558
- Approximate location
- 33.450, -82.208
Episode 558 / 28 December 2024 / 70 min / express
Helping Mom With Murder
"grove town georgia ... this is eastern georgia near the south carolina border, about 20 minutes to augusta ... this is in columbia county" about 0:04:05
The case: Murder of Kay Parsons (March 2009). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2024
- Population
- 15,608
- Median household income
- $63,860
- Median home value
- $279,300
History, in brief
- In the 1860s the town was known as Bel-Air. about 0:04:46
- It was officially incorporated as a city on January 1st, 1881. about 0:05:02
- The name came from the Old Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1808. about 0:05:10
- The post-Civil War poet Paul Hamilton Hayne lived at Copse Hill and asked the US postal service to establish the Grovetown post office. about 0:05:35
- Wealthy people from Augusta kept summer homes in Grovetown before they discovered Hilton Head. about 0:05:59
- The Roseland Hotel became the Eagle hotel in the 1880s. about 0:06:16
The reviews read out
5 stars
"A woman who moved from a small city in Mississippi five years earlier has no regrets; a positive, diverse environment where she has learned new things and had more opportunities."about 0:06:23
3 stars
"If you enjoy medium town living this is the place: within the suburbs of Augusta, small enough that families know each other, big enough for dinners and theatres."about 0:07:05
2 stars
"The city tries to be progressive with bike lanes and tidy parks and the sheriff controls traffic for schoolchildren, but the regular people are snobby and rude and the drivers are maniacs."about 0:07:40
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Modoc, South Carolina19 miles
- Milledgeville, Georgia65 miles
- Eatonton, Georgia69 miles
- Rutledge, Georgia82 miles
- Townville, South Carolina87 miles
- Santa Claus, Georgia89 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.