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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

1861
1865

Gullah Culture

1878

Voyage of the Paper Canoe

1880

Retrospection

By Herman O. Smith (b.1876)

1910


Recollections of Sawmills and Steamboats II

Letter to the Editor from W.O. Gibson



1919

Spanish Flu Epidemic

1928

The Wedding That Didn't Take Place

1931

Lydia



1938

Charlton County's Great Depression


1944

D-Day

1945

The Goat Man

1955

Folkston's First Color TV


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