Brooklet, known for its avenue of oak trees, took shape at the end of the 19th century on property owned by A.J. Lee as optimistic citizens built a new town beside the recently completed Savannah & Statesboro Railroad. Dr. H.K. Thayer, an early resident, asked the U.S. Post Office to accept the name Brooklet for the new town because a brook ran through it. Before 1899, the area was called Nellwood, and the post office was at the home of J.C. Cromley. Brooklet quickly grew as businesses opened under the names of Clisby Cone, W.C. Parker, J.A. Warnock, and Parrish & Pretorius, and Dr. J.M. McElveen and Dr. John I. Lane moved to the new town. When the town was incorporated in 1907, Dr. Lane was elected its first Mayor. Brooklet became a thriving community in eastern Bulloch County with a school, bank, electric plant, telephone company, general merchandise stores, and a large lumber mill owned by J.N. Shearouse, whose Shearouse Railroad intersected with the S & S Railroad near the center of town. Early churches were Methodist (1904), Baptist (1907), St. Marys AME Church (1907), and Primitive Baptist (1917), and Little Bethel Baptist (1893) relocated to Brooklet in 1953.