Foley, Florida

Foley is an unincorporated area in Taylor County, Florida, United States. It is located about 5 mi (8.05 km) southeast of Perry.^[2] The area is named after Jerry S. Foley, who founded it as a company town for the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company.^[3]

Foley, Florida
Unincorporated area
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Coordinates: 30°4′9.77″N 83°31′50.53″W[1]
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Taylor
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	32348
GNIS feature ID	282642[1]

History

Town plat of Foley, Florida (1940)

In 1929, Brooks-Scanlon relocated to this section of Taylor County from their sawmill in Eastport, near Jacksonville. In doing so, the company planned to establish a town for its workers in the process.^[4] The town would consist of all the standard institutions, including a school, church, and post office, which opened in 1929 but was discontinued in 1964.^[5] There was also a theater, which burned down in 1936.^[6]

Foley Lumber Industries Inc. was established in 1951 and purchased the Brooks-Scanlon lumber plant that same year.^[7] At this time there were 600 homes available to workers at Foley.^[3] The industrial site would later be home to a branch of the Buckeye Cellulose Corporation, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble.^[8] It is now occupied by Georgia Pacific, which acquired Buckeye in 2013.^[9]