Fanlew is an unincorporated community located in southern Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Florida

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2000, the population is 12,902. The U.S. Census Bureau 2005 estimate for the county is 14,490 . Its county seat is Monticello, Florida....

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Florida

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United States

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Location

Fanlew is located west of State Road 59

State Road 59 (Florida)

State Road 59 runs north to south through the eastern Florida Panhandle, with a northern terminus at US 90 near Lloyd, and a southern terminus at US 98 in rural Jefferson County....

 at Fanlew Road, and at the east end of Natural Bridge Rd., which comes out of neighboring Leon County

Leon County, Florida

Leon County is a county located in the state of Florida, named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. At the 2010 Census, the population was 275,487. The county seat of Leon County is Tallahassee which also serves as the state capital. The county seat is home to two of Florida's major...

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History

Fanlew began as a railway distribution center of the Florida Central Railroad

Florida Central Railroad (defunct)

The Florida Central Railroad, headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia, constructed a 47 mile line between that city and Fanlew, Florida in 1907 and 1908.The first 10 miles ran from Thomasville to the lumber mill in Metcalf, Georgia, then on to Roddenberry...

 and later the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American railroad that existed between 1900 and 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad...

. The community served the sawmill

Sawmill

A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end....

s and turpentine

Turpentine

Turpentine is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin obtained from trees, mainly pine trees. It is composed of terpenes, mainly the monoterpenes alpha-pinene and beta-pinene...

 stills once in the area, with supplies moving in and timber

Timber

Timber may refer to:* Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for wood materials * Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S...

 and naval stores

Naval stores

Naval Stores is a broad term which originally applied to the resin-based components used in building and maintaining wooden sailing ships, a category which includes cordage, mask, turpentine, rosin, pitch and tar...

moving out. Fanlew was most likely named for an Atlantic Coast Line superintendent.

Geography

• Elevation: 31 feet (9.4 m)