Irwinville is an unincorporated community in Irwin County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Fitzgerald micropolitan area. Irwinville is best known as the site of Jefferson Davis's capture at the end of the Civil War. On May 9, 1865, Jefferson Davis and a small group of officials camped in this pine forest, not knowing that pursuit was close behind. At dawn, they were surrounded by two independent groups of Union cavalry who were unaware of each other’s presence. Gunfire ensued until the federal forces realized they had been shooting at one another. Two Union cavalrymen died during the skirmish. Davis was then taken prisoner. The Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site is a Georgia State Park.

Though the county seat was originally Irwinville, it has been relocated to Ocilla. Irwinville was also a part of the Works Progress Administration projects in the thirties. A small lakeside recreational area, originally called Crystal Lake (later changed to Crystal Beach) operated just outside of Irwinville from the middle of the twentieth century to 1998.

• Clements, J. B. History of Irwin County. Foote & Davies Co., 1932.

• GNIS profile
• Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site
• Library of Congress photographs from the Irwinville Farms division of the WPA
• Crystal Lake geography

v t e Municipalities and communities of Irwin County, Georgia, United States
County seat: Ocilla
Cities	Fitzgerald‡ Ocilla
Unincorporated communities	Abba Irwinville Mystic Waterloo Wray
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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