Editing Woodbine, Georgia (section)

==History==
Records in 1765 show that John Brown, John McGillvary, William Molyneaux and William Trowin petitioned English authorities for {{convert|1400|acre}} south of the [[Satilla River]]. They were granted the land named Pile's Bluff, which historians believe to be near Woodbine.<ref name=HIST />

A tract of land was granted to [[Anton Cunning]] by the state in 1808. It became known as the Woodbine Plantation. Luke John Bailey purchased it in 1835 and held it through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], during which the house was burned by [[Union Army|Union troops]]. James King Bedell acquired the property, constructed a new house, and restored the plantation. The railroad entered Camden County in 1893, and Bedell sold a right-of-way across his land, but required that the first rail community be named "Woodbine".<ref name=HIST />

Woodbine was incorporated as a town on August 13, 1908,<ref name="Woodbine">{{cite web| url= http://www.dca.state.ga.us/cityscapes/comm.asp?D=1&city=Woodbine&YRID=| title= Woodbine| publisher= Georgia Department of Community Affairs| access-date= September 6, 2012}}</ref> and the word is the common English name for the [[honeysuckle]], ''Lonicera''.<ref name="Woodbine"/><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=8302| title= Profile for Woodbine, Georgia, GA|publisher= ePodunk |access-date= September 6, 2012}}</ref> The town grew more after the [[U.S. Route 17|Atlantic Coastal Highway]] was constructed during 1927 and the county seat relocated there the following year. Woodbine re-incorporated as a city in 1953.<ref name=HIST />

On the morning of February 3, 1971, the Thiokol Chemical Corporation, a factory that made flares for soldiers fighting in Vietnam, exploded. Twenty-eight employees of the factory, predominantly Black women, were killed after a flame in a small building, according to court records, triggered a massive explosion. The blast blew pieces of the building almost a mile away, left more than 50 other people injured.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reclaiming History: Museum documents deadly explosion that devastated a Black community in Georgia |url=https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/10/reclaiming-history-museum-documents-deadly-explosion-devastated-black-community-georgia |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref>