Brantley County dates to 1920 when the state legislature sliced
and then combined parts of Charlton, Pierce and Wayne counties.
Historians speculate that the county owes its name to either
prominent landowner, Benjamin Daniel Brantley, or his son and
U.S. congressman, William Gordon Brantley. Nahunta, the county
seat, is not an Indian name, as one might guess. It was a timber
stop on the railroad labeled N. A. Hunter Siding. The railroad
men dubbed it "Nahunta."