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Timeline
Articles, essays, book excerpts and notes that
help provide a narrative of the early life and times of Charlton County
- Indian Tribes / Prehistory
- Spanish Missions / Desoto
1732 - James Oglethorpe /The First Settlers
- Burnt Fort
1735 - Spanish Highlanders
1783 - Treaty of Paris / Ellicott's Mound
1793 -Traders Hill Indian Massacre
1870 - Recollections
1878 - Voyage of the Paper Canoe *in progress*
1880 - The McDonald House Hotel
1908 - Folkston Bottling Works
1909 - Johnson School
1910 - The Telephone Comes to Folkston / Census Man / Town Youth
Steamboats and Sawmills On the St. Marys River
Eddie Edwards - Son of a Slave, Cut Ties for the Queen of the Okefenokee
1912 - Judge Henry Johnson Introduced First Automobile to Folkston
1913 - Folkston School Building Burns
Folkston's Main Street Well and the Curfew Bell
World War I
"Memories of Charlton" -- Madison Gibson (.pdf)
1918 - The First Armistice Day
1926 - Rosa Etta Anderson Bailey, Licensed Midwife
Folkston's Three Movie Theaters
Dixie Lake
1929 - Seeing Charlton County In a Day's Automobile Ride
1930 - The Homeland Slaying of Warden White
- Folkston Airport
The Folkston Bus Station
Traveling Medicine Show
Christmas Fire at the Homeland Post Office
Lydia Smith Stone Crews -- "Queen of the Okefenokee"
Charles Lindberg Says Hello to Folkston
World War II Years - Local Heroes In Battle
1946 - Homecoming Day at Cornhouse Mission
Wade Chancey Wins Golden Glove Title
1947 - Local School Group Gets Warm Palm Beach Reception
1948 - High School Graduation
1949 - Leonard O'Cain's Missing Money
1950 - Folkston Depot
1954 - Fundraising For the Folkston Volunteer Fire Department
The Mystique of the Okefenokee Swamp
Lost In the Okefenokee
http://glynngen.com/thecrypt/pinebarrens
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