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TURNER COUNTY FROZEN FOODS
Turner County Frozen Foods was built in 1947 by Grady M. Sconyers (1909-1968) and his wife Cortez Henderson Sconyers (1908-2000). They operated it until 1950 when he sold it to John Corbett.
Location: 1721 US Hwy 41, Sycamore, Ga
Location: 1721 US Hwy 41, Sycamore, Ga
Turner County Guard is Burned to Death, c. 1942
![Turner Coutny [work camp] guard is burned to death - ATL Const 18 Nov 1942 page 2.jpg](https://turnercountyproject.com/archive/files/square_thumbnails/9b47e9ab759429039715ae0e583f1f4e.jpg "Turner Coutny [work camp] guard is burned to death - ATL Const 18 Nov 1942 page 2.jpg")
"Newton Smith, 35, guard at the Turner county work camp near Ashburn, burned to death yesterday when fire destroyed a guard bunkhouse. Turner county officers said he was alone in the bunkhouse when the fire developed early yesterday morning.
Funeral…
Funeral…
Turner County Hospital
Location: 616 E. Washington Ave., Ashburn, GA 31714
Turner County Passes, c. 1905
"The first new county bill taken up at the afternoon session provided for the creation of the new county of Turner from which portions of the present counties of Worth, Wilcox, and Irwin, with Ashburn, now in Worth, as the county seat."
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Turner County Post Office
Photographs of the exterior and interior of the Turner County Post Office. Built in 1939.
Turner Farmers Ready to Harvest Crops
"War prison labor was used to some extent last year and since a camp is now located in Turner County, this help will again be available this year."
Turner's Double Lynching
The Tifton Gazette reported on April 22, 1910, the lynching of Albert Royal and Charles Jackson near Ashburn. A mob abducted and shot the men, binding them to trees. Royal, a farmer, had faced legal and community harassment. Jackson had been accused…
Turner's First War Bride Arrives in Rebecca
"Turner County's first war bride arrived in Rebecca late Tuesday night with her three months old baby, Herbert Michael, from Angers, France. The petite blonde French girl is the wife of Mr. Arthur Pullin [also spelled Pullen later in article] of…
Two Negroes Hanged; Riddled with Bullets
The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal reported on April 19, 1910, the lynching of Albert Royal and Charles Jackson near Ashburn. A mob abducted and shot the men, binding them to trees. Royal, a farmer, had faced legal and community harassment. Jackson had…
Two Negros Are Lynched, c. 1910
"Two negroes were lynched near Amboy today. Warrants were sworn out by two negro women charging five prominent white men with lynching. The negroes killed were Albert Royal and Charley Jackson. The trouble started over an attack on a white woman.…
U. S. Post Office, Ashburn, Ga. (vintage postcard)
7B107-N
Written Script:
Tuesday, Aug. 28
Dear Folks, We are on our way home. Our trip has been very nice. To-night we are staying in a motel in Ft. Valley Ga. Today we traveled through cotton plantations. They are picking the cotton. Hope you…
Written Script:
Tuesday, Aug. 28
Dear Folks, We are on our way home. Our trip has been very nice. To-night we are staying in a motel in Ft. Valley Ga. Today we traveled through cotton plantations. They are picking the cotton. Hope you…
U.S. Post Office - Ashburn, GA (vintage postcard)
2-T-186
Written Script:
July 6, 1953
On our way north & thought this card would be different.
Momma & Daddu
Written to:
Mrs. Paul Marzluf
216 So Harris Ave
Lots 4. Ohio
Mail stamp:
Ashburn, GA
July 7, 1953
11 AM
Written Script:
July 6, 1953
On our way north & thought this card would be different.
Momma & Daddu
Written to:
Mrs. Paul Marzluf
216 So Harris Ave
Lots 4. Ohio
Mail stamp:
Ashburn, GA
July 7, 1953
11 AM
Uncle Jack Henderson Dead
page 11
"When Turner county was firm formed it was to be called Henderson county... He was a good citizen, devoted father and husband, Christian hearted neighbor and a very useful man in the community in his day and time."
"When Turner county was firm formed it was to be called Henderson county... He was a good citizen, devoted father and husband, Christian hearted neighbor and a very useful man in the community in his day and time."
Unnamed private road off of Murray Road
Ashburn, Ga
US. Coast & Geodetic Survey Bench Mark, c. 1934
US. Coast & Geodetic Survey Bench Mark
Elev. Feet.
Above Mean Sea Level
$250 FINE OR IMPRISONMENT FOR DISTURBING THIS MARK
ASHBURN
1934
Elev. Feet.
Above Mean Sea Level
$250 FINE OR IMPRISONMENT FOR DISTURBING THIS MARK
ASHBURN
1934
Victoria Evans Memorial Library
This is a photo of the Victoria Evans Memorial Library when it was located at what is now the Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce (238 E. College Avenue, Ashburn, GA 31714).
Although the date is unknown for the photo, we can date it before…
Although the date is unknown for the photo, we can date it before…
Victoria Evans Memorial Library (before 1987)
This one-story, wood-framed building was constructed in 1932 by the City of Ashburn with the help of a public works program. The original purpose was to become a community and library space. However, a new library was built on donated Shingler land…
Victoria Evans Memorial Library plaque
Plaque located outside the front doors of Victoria Evans Memorial Library
605 North St
Ashburn, GA
"In honor of Netta Jacobs Shingler, charter member of the Library Board, the property for this library site given by her son, George Jacobs…
605 North St
Ashburn, GA
"In honor of Netta Jacobs Shingler, charter member of the Library Board, the property for this library site given by her son, George Jacobs…
Victoria Evans Memorial Library, c. unknown
This is a photo of the Victoria Evans Memorial Library when it was located at what is now the Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce (238 E. College Avenue, Ashburn, GA 31714).
Although the date is unknown for the photo, we can date it before…
Although the date is unknown for the photo, we can date it before…
View Flower Garden, Shingler Park, Ashburn, Ga. (Vintage postcard)
Addressed to:
Miss Eula Hill
Montezuma, GA
Post Office Stamp:
March 24, 1910
3pm
Ashburn, GA
View from Turner County Courthouse Bell Tower (after 1912)
Ashburn Methodist Church far upper left and Ashburn First Baptist Church far right.
