Tag: Folkston
Folkston is a city in and the county seat of Charlton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,178 at the 2000 census. The 2010 census count was 2,502, and increase of 14.9%.
Folkston was founded on August 19, 1911. The city was named in honor of William Brandon Folks, M.D., a prominent physician and surgeon in his day. In the years 1925 – 1927, many new and commodious residences were built and several modern brick buildings were erected, including the Citizen Bank Block, the new Masonic Temple building, a new grammar-school building and a new courthouse. Shortly after its creation, the village of Folkston was incorporated as a town government and functioned as a town until the year 1911 when the area was incorporated as the city of Folkston. For a number of years, the city of Folkston was the self-proclaimed “Marriage Capital of the World”. The city embraced this nickname because Floridians who could not endure their state’s waiting period before tying the knot would…