The Brunswick and Pensacola Railroad was a logging line established in 1894. Owned by the
Suwannee Canal Company, the railroad ran from
Folkston, Georgia
Folkston is a city in and the county seat of Charlton County, Georgia, United States. Folkston is in the Jacksonville Metropolitan Area. The population was 2,502 as of the 2010 census, up from 2,178 in 2000, largely due to the extension of the c ...
, to the
Suwanee Canal on the East edge of the
Okefenokee Swamp
The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee ...
near
Camp Cornelia, Georgia.
Despite the name, the railroad never reached Pensacola. When the Suwannee Canal Company went bankrupt in 1897, the railroad collapsed along with it.
Georgia State Route 40
State Route 40 (SR 40) is a state highway in the southeast part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway travels from US 1/ US 23/ US 301/ SR 4/ SR 15 in Folkston east to Church Street in St. Marys. SR&nb ...
was built along a portion of the former right-of-way for this railroad line.
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External links
History at RailGA
Logging railroads in the United States
Defunct Georgia (U.S. state) railroads
American companies established in 1894
Railway companies established in 1894
1894 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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