United States Post Office,

Mystic, Irwin County, Georgia, 2001.

c. Brian Brown

Mystic was settled in the late nineteenth century as a sawmill camp for Henry Harding Tift's vast lumber operations, as much of the virgin pine forests in the area around Tifton, his namesake and base of operations, had been depleted. The township was named in honor of Mr. Tift's hometown, Mystic, Connecticut.