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Apalachee High School is located in Winder, Georgia, United States. The school's team is known as the Wildcats. Apalachee is a part of Barrow County Schools, a Title I district. Feeder schools include Haymon-Morris Middle School and Westside Middle School.

Whistleville is an unincorporated community located in Barrow County, Georgia, United States.

Bold Springs is an unincorporated community in Walton County, Georgia, United States. It is located around Georgia State Route 81 and Bold Springs Road. Walton County Parks & Recreation operates the 3-acre (1.2 ha) Bold Springs Park in the community. A variant name is Bold Spring.

Barrow Heights is an unincorporated community located in Barrow County, Georgia, United States.

Fort Yargo State Park is a 1,816-acre (7.35 km2) U.S. state park located in Winder, Georgia, situated between Athens and Atlanta. The park is located 1 mile south of Winder and is accessible by Georgia State Route 81. There is a 260-acre (1.1 km2) lake with a public beach. Available activities at Fort Yargo include GeoCaching, hiking, mountain biking, disc golf, boating (including Jon boat, pedal boat, and canoe rentals), lake swimming, fishing, picnicking, and miniature golf. The park also features a log fort built in 1792 by settlers, for protection against the Creek and Cherokee. The park also hosts Camp Will-A-Way, an accessible camp designed for individuals with developmental disabilities, in partnership with Camp Twin Lakes.

Carl is a town in Barrow County, Georgia, United States. The population was 269 at the 2016 census.

The Kilgore Mill Covered Bridge and Mill Site, near Bethlehem, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The bridge, built in 1894, has also been known as the Bethlehem Bridge, the Apalachee River Bridge, and the Briscoe Mill Bridge It is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Bethlehem, across the Apalachee River (which is the boundary between Barrow County and Walton County).It is a single-span Town lattice truss bridge, 117 feet (36 m) long.

The Carlyle-Blakey Farm, in Barrow County, Georgia near Winder, Georgia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is notable as the site of a prominent agricultural reform demonstration in 1948, which addressed a huge problem in Georgia agriculture. This was the fact that few Georgia farmers terraced their fields or rotated crops, leading to severe erosion. An extreme example was the development of what became known as the Providence Canyon, from growth of a farm gully into a 150-foot-deep canyon, even becoming a state park. The farm is notable for the unusual event on May 12, 1948:when the farm (then 168 acres) was chosen as the site of a Master Conservation Field Day. Sponsored by the Oconee River Soil Conservation District, The Atlanta Journal, and the Civic Clubs of Winder, this massive one-day effort involving hundreds of men and machines transformed the badly eroded and depleted farm into a model of efficient and productive land management. The fence lines and re-configured demarcations for cropland, pasture, woodland, house lots, and ponds are all still starkly evident on aerial views today. The terracing from 1948 can be seen on the ground in several of the fields on the western half of the property. Most of the buildings and structures are clustered near the road and the 1.75-acre pond in the northeast quadrant of the property. These include the Blakey's mid-20th-century house (non-contributing due to major alterations), two barns, two sheds, a chicken house, a creek-side baptismal pool, and a small pump house. A metal utility barn/equipment shed is the sole building that was constructed during the conservation field day, and is therefore the only contributing resource other than the site itself. The southeast corner of the nominated property is now a separately owned 10-acre parcel (the "Chaney lot" on the sketch map) with a non-historic house, two outbuildings and a %-acre pond. While this small parcel has modern buildings, its major historic landscape elements from 1948 remain essentially intact. The entire property still maintains its rural character, in contrast to some of the tract housing development around the periphery." The one contributing building is a metal barn built on that day. The contributing site is the transformed farm, now with gullies filled in and terracing.It is located at 568 GA 211 NW, on the west side of Thompson Hill Road (Highway 211), 568 Georgia State Highway 211, Northwest, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Winder. It was a rural area in 1948, but by 2009 the area around the farm was being developed.

Barrow County Schools is a public school district based in Winder, Georgia, United States, serving Barrow County. The boundary of the district is that of the county.

Bethlehem is a town in Barrow County in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 715. The major employer in town is Harrison Poultry, which is the largest non-government employer in Barrow County. The town was named after a local church, Bethlehem Methodist Church, and has a strong Christmas theme, with many of the street names being references to the nativity of Jesus, such as Mary, Joseph, and Manger. After the introduction of a 1967 stamp in Bethlehem, the town became known as a popular location for sending mail from during the holidays, as the post office sends letters marked "from Bethlehem."

The Barrow County Courthouse, which is located on Courthouse Sq. in Winder, Georgia, was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was designed by J.J. Baldwin. It has a one-story projecting entrance and a two-story Doric tetrastyleportico. It has a three-stage clock tower with clocks facing in four directions. The listing included two contributing buildings.

The Barrow County Museum is a museum located in Winder, Georgia. holds artifacts of Barrow county. It is the home of the Barrow County Historical Society. The museum located in the old Barrow County Jail, built in 1914. It hosts exhibits on Senator Richard B. Russell, county history and Fort Yargo. A small granite monument honoring the unknown Confederate dead that once stood at Triangle Park in Rosehill Cemetery now resides at the museum.