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NARRATIVE TIMELINE
A collection of articles, essays, notes, and excerpts from books to help provide a narrative of Charlton County's past
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Indian Tribes Prehistory
1539
DeSoto Expedition
1732
James Oglethorpe - The First Settlers
1735
Oglethorpe bans slavery in Georgia / Overruled by King in 1751
1735
Scottish Highlanders / Burnt Fort / Slavery
1783
Treaty of Paris / Ellicott's Mound
1793
1820
1861
1861
1865
Gullah Culture
1878
Voyage of the Paper Canoe
1880
By Herman O. Smith (b.1876)
1910
1912
1917
1919
Spanish Flu Epidemic
1920
1921
1928
The Wedding That Didn't Take Place
1931
Lydia
1938
Charlton County's Great Depression
1940
1944
D-Day
1945
The Goat Man
1955
Folkston's First Color TV
1958
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