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Pfc. Willie T. Nelson (above) son of Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Nelson, Ashburn Rt. 3, was killed in action in Luxembourgh Dec. 28, according to a telegram received from the War Department. He was 19 years old.

Pfc. Nelson was born near Quitman April 18,…

Located at what is now known as Tom Whitsett Park, the pool has since closed and been filled in.

The white building in the back was Britt's Grocery.

Farmer Steven Poole picks up dried peanuts and loads them in trailer for travel to peanut mills for harvest 2021. Steven works for Phil Coley at Coley Farms.

Location: Rogers Plaza facing West (S. Johnson St. and E. Monroe St. in Ashburn, GA)

Founded in 1892.

Location: 101 Magnolia St., Rebecca, GA
Date: January 27, 2026

Pioneers Sheep Bennett Pate and Daniel H. Davis, early ~1900s

Daniels Road in Ashburn, Ga

Julianne Road in Ashburn, Georgia

Pivots in Paradise

Location: Nesmith Rd., Sycamore, GA

Photos are in left to right order, top to bottom for new principals for the Integrated school system of Turner County Schools:
Jimmy Alberson
Rudene Gentry
Bill Hardin
Elie S. Griffin
Hodge King

New school grade/principal assignments:
Grades…

Plowing up peanuts at Phil Coley Farms.

Farmer Steven Poole plows up peanuts for harvest 2021. Steven works for Phil Coley at Coley Farms.

Ewing Farm Road in Ashburn, Ga

Photo taken at the Southwest corner of the Turner County Courthouse of Jack Marrell and his wife.
The wagon is selling Rawleigh Products: Medicines, Extracts, Spices, Soaps, Perfumes, Toilet Articles.

Ashburn First Baptist Church can be see in…

J.S. Betts was one of Ashburn’s founding fathers, long-time Mayor of Ashburn, and owner of the Betts Lumber Company. It was said that his wife Elmira Josephine Bohannon Betts (May 2, 1858 – September 27, 1907) used to “signal” her sister Ella…

JOHN WEST EVANS

(September 27, 1844 – January 16, 1904)

Born in Hancock County to Sterling G. and Mary West Evans, John and his wife Ella, followed his business partner/brother-in-law John Samuel “J.S.” Betts (July 29, 1848 – April 25, 1918)…

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