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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Woodstock. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Woodstock to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Woodstock, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Woodstock (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Woodstock. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Woodstock is historic, it would have been located within present day Charlton County.
To see how the shape of Georgia's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Charlton County: Baker (FL), Nassau (FL), Brantley, Camden & Ware.
Below are the counties that are near Woodstock. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Woodstock:
- Charlton County (The home county of Woodstock)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Folkston
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Homeland
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Homeland is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 955 people
- Traders Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Traders Hill is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Traders Hill
- Mattox ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mattox is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattox
- Winokur
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Winokur is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winokur
- Saint George
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Brantley County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Nahunta
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hoboken
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Raybon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Raybon is located in Brantley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raybon
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,094 people
- Waynesville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Camden County
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Greenville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Greenville is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
- Estimated population in 2019: 845 people
- Hazlehurst
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Hazlehurst is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazlehurst
- Estimated population in 2019: 4,137 people
- Jefferson
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jefferson is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
- Estimated population in 2019: 12,032 people
- Tarboro
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Tarboro is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarboro
- Estimated population in 2019: 85 people
- Woodbine
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Kingsland
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Harrietts Bluff Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- White Oak
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- London Hill
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- London Hill is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London Hill
- Estimated population in 2019: 91 people
- Scotchville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Scotchville is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotchville
- Estimated population in 2019: 337 people
- Waverly
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Marys
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Glynn County
- Georgetown
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Georgetown is located in Glynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
- Duval County (FL)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Biscayne Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Biscayne Village is located in Duval County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biscayne Village
- Garden City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Garden City is located in Duval County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
- Nassau County (FL)
- The following are listed by their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Boulogne
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Hilliard
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Dyal
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Dyal is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyal
- Evergreen
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Evergreen is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
- Callahan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Crawford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Crawford is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford
- Nassau Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Nassau Village is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nassau Village
- Yulee
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bryceville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Woodstock, see our County-by-County Page for Woodstock.
Cemeteries Near Woodstock ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Woodstock.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Woodstock - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Woodstock covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Pineview Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Little Phoebe Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Mt. Carmel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Homeland Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Bryant Road Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryant Road Cemetery
- The Bryant Road Cemetery has also been known as:
- Traders Hill Cemetery
- Traders Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Antioch Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Oak Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sardis Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sardis Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sardis Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southwest of Folkston.
- The Sardis Cemetery has also been known as:
- Sardis Church Cemetery
- Mallets Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Lowther Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Haddock Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Continue List (87 more) ...
- Manning Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Neeley Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bethel Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find Woodstock in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Woodstock.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Woodstock, with the one closest to Woodstock listed first.
- Folkston
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Boulogne
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Traders Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Traders Hill is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Traders Hill
- Kings Ferry
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Kings Ferry is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Ferry
- Uptonville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Uptonville is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uptonville
- Hilliard
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Tompkins
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tompkins is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins
- Evergreen
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Evergreen is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
- Tarboro
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Tarboro is located in Camden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarboro
- Estimated population in 2019: 85 people
- Racepond
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Racepond is located in Charlton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racepond
- Callahan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Italia
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Italia is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Italia
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Crandall
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Crandall is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandall
- Crawford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Crawford is located in Nassau County (FL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford
- Saint Marys
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Woodstock. See our List of 1890's Communities around Woodstock.
Newspapers Published in Woodstock ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Woodstock.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Woodstock, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Woodstock.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Woodstock:
- Websites specific to Georgia
- Pages specific to Charlton County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Brantley County
- Camden County
- Glynn County
- Duval County
- Nassau County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Georgia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Woodstock, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Woodstock) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |