John M. Hopkins Cabin

The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a 402,000‑acre (1,627 km2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Charlton, Ware, and Clinch Counties of Georgia, and Baker County in Florida, United States. The refuge is administered from offices in Folkston, Georgia. The refuge was established in 1937 to protect a majority of the 438,000 acre (1,772 km2) Okefenokee Swamp. The name "Okefenokee" is a Native American word meaning "trembling earth."A wildfire which began with a lightning strike near the center of the Refuge on May 5, 2007 eventually merged with another wildfire which had begun near Waycross, Georgia on April 16 due to a tree falling on a power line. By May 28, more than 580,000 acres (2,300 km2) had burned in the region, or more than 900 square miles (2300 km2).Nearly 400,000 people visit the refuge each year, making it the 16th most visited refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System. It is the largest in acreage of any that is not located in a western state. In 1999, the economic impact of tourism in Charlton, Ware, and Clinch Counties in Georgia exceeded $67 million. The refuge has a staff of 16 with a fiscal year 2005 budget of $1,451,000. The refuge also administers the Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

Charlton County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of Georgia, located in the southeastern part of the state. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,518. The county seat is Folkston.

Trader's Hill was a trading post and small settlement on the St. Marys River in Charlton County, Georgia.

Davis Field (FAA LID: 3J6) is a county-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Folkston, a city in Charlton County, Georgia, United States.

Spanish Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the St. Marys River.Spanish Creek was named after "Spanish John", a local Seminole Indian.

The Folkston Railfan Platform is located in Folkston, Georgia along CSX Transportation's Nahunta Subdivision, and provides a location where railfans can safely view and photograph trains. With the help of a $30,000 state grant, the city built the train-watching platform in 2001 and is promoted by county and state tourism agencies.Since that time, the city has attracted thousands of railfans from across the nation who come to Folkston to see the dozens of CSX and the six Amtrak trains (including the daily Amtrak Auto Train) that operate between cities in Florida and cities in the south, midwest, and northeast. The platform is equipped with ceiling fans and a radio scanner that allows railfans to hear railroad-related radio traffic. Wireless internet access is available. The double-track mainline that passes through town sees about 40 trains each day. Most CSX freight traffic into or out of Florida passes through Folkston.

The William Mizell Sr. House, on Garden Street (formerly was 101 Palm St.) in Folkston in Charlton County, Georgia, was built in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.It has also been known as the Susie Fleming/Helen Sarbacher Property, and its listing included three contributing buildings and two contributing sites.It is a two-story frame house with a one-story wraparound porch supported by paired Doric columns. The architectural style is a restrained version of Classical Revival style. It has a frame greenhouse from 1917 and a frame garage from 1940, which, at the time of NRHP listing, were both in damaged condition.It was the home of it was the home of William Mizell Sr. (1852–1930) and his wife, Susie Jane Standiford Mizell (1859–1936). William Mizzell was a businessman who operated sawmills and established the Citizens' Bank in Folkston.

The Charlton County Courthouse is located in Folkston, Georgia. It is in the Neoclassical style and was constructed in 1928 out of brick, stone, and concrete. The construction cost was $46,000 and the clock cost and additional $3,000. The total cost of the project was $54,000. It is the fourth courthouse built for this county and is built on the site of the previous courthouse, which was built in 1902 and burned in 1928.The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Folkston is a city in and the county seat of Charlton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,464 in 2020.

Homeland is a city in Charlton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 886 in 2020.

The Charlton County School District is a public school district in Charlton County, Georgia, United States, based in Folkston. It serves the communities of Folkston, Homeland, Moniac, and Saint George.

Charlton County High School is a public high school located in Folkston, Georgia, United States. The school is part of the Charlton County School District, which serves Charlton County.