Stilson, Georgia, grew from a station on the Savannah & Statesboro Railway after the line was completed in 1899 and was named for Stilson Hutchinson, who helped bring the railway through the area. William Strickland served as the first postmaster in 1899, and Edith Hutchinson was the last in 1966. In 1900, Stilson had a population of 138, and by 1909 its businesses traded in naval stores, melons, cotton, timber, and turpentine while prosperous farmers surrounded the town. Dr. Frank Forest Floyd was Stilson’s first doctor, and after he moved to Statesboro, Dr. Dan L. Deal began practicing there in 1910. In 1901, the town built a two story school called Stilson Academy, advertised with the words, “All Branches Taught. Board moderate. Tuition reasonable.” and Professor Ingraham was its first teacher. In 1952, Stilson High School won both the Boys and Girls State Basketball Championships. In 1903, Statesboro Presbyterian minister S.W. DuBose established a Presbyterian Mission in Stilson; a chapel was dedicated in 1952, and the mission closed in the early 1970s. As the railroad declined and U.S. Highway 80 grew west of town, Stilson began to decline, and by 1955 Stilson High had closed, with students sent to Southeast Bulloch High School in nearby Brooklet. Notable people from Stilson included Bette Beasley Anderson, Under Secretary of the Treasury; B. Avant Edenfield, Senior Judge of the U.S. Court Southern District; and Faye Sanders Martin, the first woman Chief Judge of the Superior Courts, Ogeechee Judicial Circuit.