Folks River is a
city
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and
river
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along the
Caribbean
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seacoast in
Colón Province,
Panama
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, near the
Atlantic entrance to the
Panama Canal
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. It is located at
By the time the United States acquired the rights to build the Canal in 1904, the settlement at Folks River — then called Fox River — consisted of “small, portable houses put up by
the French and in bad condition,” and “24 main buildings in three rows,” between the railroad shops and the main line. In 1915, the town's population (then 932) changed its name to Folks River.
Nearby locales
References
Rivers of Panama
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