Charlton
County was created on February 18, 1854 from part of Camden and Ware counties.
Named
in honor of Robert
Milledge Charlton, a U.S. Senator and one of Georgia's foremost jurists.
Charlton
County contains a large portion of the Stephen C. Foster State Park,
and
the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness Area.
The
county seat is Folkston.
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