Mr. Thigpen had opened a tavern to benefit the stagecoach line at the crossroads of what is today Baldwin.

"[6] On August 10, 1864, a skirmish occurred between a Confederate cavalry and the 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops.

Two days later the Federals dispatched cavalry troops from Baldwin to drive Confederate forces back.

The students from the school were temporarily housed in a variety of public buildings, including churches and the city hall.

Florida State law, in 1948, required new school buildings be placed on parcels not less than 10 acres (40,000 m2) in size.

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.3 km2), all land.

[9] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild winters.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,396 people, 588 households, and 391 families residing in the town.

The municipality operates a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) supermarket that opened on September 20, 2019, in response to the closure of the last remaining private grocery store, an IGA, in 2018; the county market is located in the former IGA building, which post-2018 prospective small business supermarket owners found too large and corporate chains found too small.

The nearest privately run supermarkets are in Macclenny and Jacksonville, and the Dollar General lacks fresh food.

The Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad acquired the former CSX main line from Pensacola to Baldwin on June 1, 2019.

No passenger trains stop in Baldwin, but Amtrak's Palmetto train served the Wildwood Subdivision until November 2004, and the Sunset Limited served the Tallahassee and Jacksonville Terminal Subdivisions until Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005.