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Brooks is a small town in southern Fayette County, 13 miles south of Fayetteville, the county seat, and 13 miles west of Griffin.

Creek Indians lived in the Brooks area before white settlers arrived, and the first white settler family was the Haistens, giving the town its first name, Haistentown.

The town took the name Brooks in 1905, after local planter Hillery Brooks, who contributed greatly to the construction of the railroad and a much-needed depot; its post office also opened in 1905.

By the 1900s Brooks was growing around the railroad, with stores, a bank, a drugstore, cotton gins, grist mills and blacksmith shops, and cotton as its number one crop.

When the boll weevil arrived in 1921 it destroyed the cotton crop, drove the town into economic depression, and Brooks lost its charter; the town began to recover in 1939, after electricity was installed, and received its charter again around that time.

The 2020 census counted 568 residents in Brooks, up from 524 in 2010; in the 2000 census the town had 553 residents in 195 households.

Brooks covers about 4.4 square miles and remains rural and residential, with much of its land divided into five-to-ten-acre homesites; a school had stood in town since 1909 before Brooks Elementary closed in 2013.

Education in Brooks falls under the Fayette County School System.