[1] Irwinville is well known for its role in the American Civil War as the site of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who was fleeing Union troops.

In mid-February 1865, a group of Southern Unionists, a large number of residents, and deserters led by local miller Willis Jackson Bone assembled in Irwinville.

Davis was on his way from the capital of the Confederacy at Richmond, Virginia to board a ship with his family and flee to safety in Cuba.

Davis tried to escape towards the creek wearing an overcoat and his wife had tied her scarf around his shoulders, due to a heavy rainstorm, but members of the First Wisconsin and Fourth Michigan Cavalry Regiments captured him.

The 11 miles of track originally built by the Ocilla & Irwinville Railroad were abandoned in 1916 and later removed.

In August 1883, a notice was placed on the door of the courthouse stating that it and the public square in which it sat would be sold to the highest available bidder within 10 days.

John Clements won the courthouse at a sum of $40.50, to which there was significant public outcry because the citizens of Irwinville did not want to see the building go.

This courthouse was of an elongated design and would have sat in about the same location as where Moorehead's County Store stands today.

In 1856, an African-American prisoner named Josh Williams was imprisoned for the murder of two European-American men, Daniel and Bill Luke.

On the night that Williams was arrested, someone set fire to the building and although the jailer lived only a mile away, neither the jail nor the prisoner could be saved.

All three jails in Irwinville were built around the same area as the courthouses and where Moorehead's Country Store presently stands.

We know from historical records that the Oak trees that stand around Moorehead's were once used for the hangings of criminals jailed at the jailhouses and convicted at the old courthouses.

Little is known about this building but it once welcomed visitors from many places and had played host to the American Confederacy's first and only president, Jefferson Davis.

The post office was closed by the United States Postal Service due to the cost of keeping it open.

The Irwinville Farms Project resulted in the construction of a cooperative cotton gin (at the stoplight in Irwinville, directly across from Quick change #50 store), the monument in the park at the Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site, school playground, and a health clinic.

The project brought sports and ultimately resulted in the famous Irwinville Farmers basketball team, a May Day-health festival, and it saw the old courthouse converted into apartments for farm families.