Baldwin is a town in Duval County, Florida, United States. When the majority of communities in Duval County were consolidated taking into consideration the city of Jacksonville in 1968, Baldwin, along later than Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach, remained partly independent. Like the new towns, it maintains its own municipal government, but its residents vote in the Jacksonville mayoral election and vote for the Jacksonville City Council; unlike the others, Baldwin no longer supports its own police force. The population was 1,425 at the 2010 census.

The town was first settled below the broadcast of Thigpen in 1846. Mr. Thigpen had opened a tavern to lead the stagecoach pedigree at the crossroads of what is today Baldwin. He supplied horses for performing and shelter and food for the passengers. The first railroad was built through Thigpen in 1857 as soon as a second crossing it in 1859. The pronounce was distorted to Baldwin in praise of Dr. Abel Seymour Baldwin, the president of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, a railroad that ran from Lake City to Jacksonville. Further develop in Baldwin led to the start of a telegraphic line giving out from Jacksonville to Baldwin. Baldwin lies in the company of Macclenny and Jacksonville

On August 10, 1864 during the Civil War a prosecution occurred in the company of a Confederate cavalry and the 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops. A section of railroad track was destroyed by the Federal troops. Two days forward-thinking the Federals dispatched cavalry troops from Baldwin to aspiration Confederate forces back. One Federal soldier was killed and four were captured in the process. Baldwin was after that burned next to by the Federals. From 1865 to 1875 Baldwin was rebuilt reaching a population of 250.

In 1947, the indigenous school building serving the white population burned to the ground. There was no fire department to run it, and it was enormously destroyed. The students from the bookish were temporarily housed in a variety of public buildings, including churches and the city hall. Later, barracks buildings from understandable army training base Camp Blanding were moved to the site of the burned school, where classes continued for virtually two years though a new assistant professor was bodily built. A educational for the black population was located in a building located near the antiquated ice forest that served the railroad. The hypothetical was occupied for a number of years after the supplementary white school was built.