Troupville was a settlement about four miles northwest of present-day Valdosta, named in honor of George M. Troup, governor of Georgia from 1823 to 1827. In 1833, the Lowndes County seat moved there from Franklinville, and Troupville was incorporated in 1837 and remained the county seat until 1860. When the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad surveyed a route in the area from Savannah toward Pensacola, the proposed line bypassed Troupville, and Lowndes County established the new town of Valdosta on the railroad. Shortly after train operations began in 1860, the county seat transferred to Valdosta. Early residents included the Ayer, Briggs, Ellis, Griffin, Hall, Howell, Jones, Morgan, Smith, and Treadwell families, many of whom are buried at the nearby Troupville Cemetery.