About the town » McRae, Telfair County, Georgia, United States

The city of McRae is the county seat of Telfair County, Georgia, United States. McRae was incorporated on March 3, 1874, and was named for a pioneering Scottish family. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 5,740, up from 2,682 at the 2000 census, due largely to expansion of the city limits around the McRae Correctional Facility. On January 1, 2015, McRae and the adjacent town of Helena merged to form McRae-Helena.