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Baconton is a small city in northern Mitchell County, Georgia, located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and State Road 93, about 16 miles south of Albany.

Baconton was named for Major Robert James Bacon, who settled in the area in 1858 and purchased 4,000 acres of land for $4,000, becoming a prominent cotton planter.

In 1869, railroad engineers named the station on Bacon's land 'Baconton' in his honor without his knowledge, after he granted the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad a right-of-way through his plantation, a company on whose board he served as a director.

Baconton was officially incorporated in 1903, and the city encompasses about one square mile with the old town well at its center.

Baconton proudly calls itself the birthplace of Georgia's paper-shell pecan industry, and pecans have been shelled, stored, processed and sold in the town since at least 1919.

The city celebrates that heritage with an annual Pecan Harvest Festival, which has been held for more than four decades.

The Baconton Commercial Historic District, centered on Railroad Avenue and Walton Street with brick storefronts dating from the first decade of the twentieth century, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Baconton's city hall is a Victorian home built in 1891 for George W. Jackson that is itself listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Baconton Community Charter School, a public pre-K through 12th grade charter school with roughly 900 students known as the Blazers, draws its students from five surrounding counties.

The 2020 census counted 856 residents in Baconton, down from 915 in 2010.