| Foley, Florida | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated area |
| Pushpin Map: | Florida#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Foley, Florida |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Taylor |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Postal Code: | 32348 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Foley is an unincorporated area in Taylor County, Florida, United States. It is located about 52NaN2 southeast of Perry.[1] The area is named after Jerry S. Foley, who founded it as a company town for the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4] There was also a theater, which burned down in 1936.[5]
Foley Lumber Industries Inc. was established in 1951 and purchased the Brooks-Scanlon lumber plant that same year.[6] At this time there were 600 homes available to workers at Foley.[2] The industrial site would later be home to a branch of the Buckeye Cellulose Corporation, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble.[7] It is now occupied by Georgia Pacific, which acquired Buckeye in 2013.[8]