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Bulloch History with Roger Allen - The truth about where Stilson got its name
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Roger Allen
Note: The following is the 27th in a series of columns that will describe towns and communities, past and present, that were settled after Bulloch County was first settled. Some have since been cut into other counties. Stilson, a community in the eastern part of Bulloch County, was actually first known by the name of Siebald, in honor of George Sibbald, who had donated some 200 acres of land for Bulloch's judicial center in what became Statesboro.
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