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- Collection: National Newspaper Clippings about Turner County
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Local Architect, Contractor, Built Theater at Ashburn
Description of the now burned down Ashburn Theater.
Ashburn is Located in the Heart of one of Georgia's Richest Farming Sections
100 years ago, Ashburn was "one of the busiest and most progressive little cities in the Great Heart of South Georgia..."
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County Flag is Dedicated
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The Old Main Drag is a Lonesome Road
"The highway was the umbilical cord that brought outsiders and their money into contact with the towns of the rural South."
Photo on page 2 of Orien Cown from Ashburn, GA. Caption reads: "Gasoline cost 37 cents a gallon when Orien Cown shut off…
Photo on page 2 of Orien Cown from Ashburn, GA. Caption reads: "Gasoline cost 37 cents a gallon when Orien Cown shut off…
Black Prisoner's killing sparks Ashburn racial violence
Robert Lee Wright Jr. (1963-1985)
Troubled times come to Ashburn
"Most blacks and whites here get along all right," said Robert Lee Wright Sr., father of the young man slain. "I haven't had any problems. But the police force and blacks don't get along at all. They treat blacks wrong all the time."
'Deadly force' bill clears House committee
"Prompted by a Turner County incident, a House committee Tuesday approved a bill that spells out when a police officer can us 'deadly force' to apprehend a subject."
Suit Filed on Behalf of Robert Wright, Jr.
"The NAACP filed a civil suit here in Federal court on May 4 seeking $5 million in damages."
Tan Cleghorn Again Wounded by Cochran
Tan Cleghorn, accused of poisoning her fiance Minnie Marchman and killing her, was shot by her brother, W.J. Cochran. Tan received only a flesh wound with the bullet striking him in the thigh.
2 Fatally Shot in Poison Feud
W.J. Cochran, brother-in-law of deceased Minnie Marchman, fatally wounds the brothers of accused murderer, Tan Cleghorn.
"Today Cochran left his home with a shotgun on his shoulder... the Cleghorn brothers were encountered... When the smoke…
"Today Cochran left his home with a shotgun on his shoulder... the Cleghorn brothers were encountered... When the smoke…
Girl's Death Mystery; Seek Man
"Miss Minnie Marchman Dies in Ashburn in Convulsions--- Coroner Has Warrants Sworn Out For Tan Cleghorn, Her Friend, Who Has Vanished."
Father of Forty Children
"He has had two wives, the first dying several years ago. She was the mother of twenty-four of his lusty offspring and his second wife who is still living and strong and health has up to this time presented him with sixten. She is only 42 years old,…