• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About the TCP
    • Our Towns
      • Ashburn
      • Rebecca
      • Sycamore
    • Community Engagement
    • Foodways
  • Digital Archive
  • Ashburn Driving Tour
  • Road Name Project
  • People of Turner County

Turner County Project

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Home » Ashburn School

Ashburn School

December 5, 2021Ashburn
0
Untitled – School Buildings, Chicago, Illinois, 1947. (Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection at Newberry Library)

Vintage postcard of the Ashburn School. The building burned in the 1960s.

Location: Gilmore Street in Ashburn, Georgia
Date: 1947

This was the site of the city’s high school when high school trustees purchased land for that purpose in 1899 for $500. The school building was designed by Peter E. Dennis in 1899. It consisted of two wings in an irregular floor plan, with one wing being two stories in height to accommodate an auditorium. The building was damaged by a fire in 1955 and the wing’s second floor was removed. In 1954, an entrance connection was added between the two wings, and in 1956 (cafeteria and lunchroom constructed) and 1962 (addition to lunchroom), other additions were made. The non-historic gymnasium behind the building dates from 1949. The 1941 Board of Education building (the original building was an agricultural building) has been extremely altered and is noncontributing. The school building housed Ashburn’s entire school system from 1914 into the 1960s.

There are several articles in the Ashburn Advance about the building of the school but one of note said the following:

“Work on the proposed new $5,000 school building must begin before May 1st [1899], or the gift of the handsome 5-acre tract of land upon which it is proposed to locate the same will not be realized, the donation being made on that condition. Our people should arouse from their lethargy and see to it that work begins before that time. Our growing little city demands a better school building, and right now is the opportune time to begin work on the same.”

Ashburn Advance edition April 22, 1899

Another view

Taken in the 1940s.
Cofield’s Studio (Cordele, Ga.). “1927 Graduating Class, Ashburn, Ga. High School..” 1927. August 18, 2021. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:tur011.
Artist rendering found in the 1936 ACE Ashburn High School Yearbook.
Accessed: https://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/ashburn-high-school/4182816002?page=1

0
Tagged With: Ashburn Advance, Ashburn School, Peter E. Dennis, Turner County Board of Education, Vintage Postcard

You may also like:

Trick or Treat in the Streets, 2023

405 Gilmore St., c. 1900

Ace Hardware

Ashburn… one of Georgia’s Richest Farming Sections

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Previous Post: « Giddens’ Coins of Ashburn, GA
Next Post: Farm Road »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Search

Turner County Courthouse

The mission of the Turner County Project is to illuminate our local community and cultural practices one photo at a time. To give a permanent photographic presence for future historians, amateur or professional, no matter their interests.

Learn More >

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Newsletter

Subscribe for a monthly digest on the latest of Turner County!

Visit our Digital Archive!

Categories

  • Ashburn
  • Ashburn Driving Tour
  • Foodways
  • Historical Documents
  • People of Turner County
  • Rebecca
  • Road Name Project
  • Sycamore
  • Uncategorized

© ALL content on this website is protected by copyright. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this website’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Email the site admin at contact@turnercountyproject.com for specific questions and usage.

Copyright © 2025 · Turner County Project · Hearten Made ⟡