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Student Aids Bicentennial Enthusiasm

Tags: Ashburn, Dorothy Joe Bean, Floyd Wardlow, Lillie Wright Scoggins, Phil Hasty, Turner County Bicentennial Committee, Turner County Superior Court

Turner County Honors Alex Story

Tags: Alexander Stevens Story (1892-1973), Ashburn, Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce, Austin A Saxon Jr (1927 - 2/3/2001), Ben Williams (1943-2017), Bennett Pate (1918-1982), Essena "Essa" Howell Story (1905-1993), Harvey Christopher "H.C." Barber Jr. (1926-2015), Marvin Raines, The Wiregrass Farmer, Turner County Board of Commissioners, Warren Jackson Daniel “Jackie” McCorvey (1889-1967)

Big Peanut Rededication Ceremony

Posed picture: AgGeorgia FarmCredit, Nick Denham, Dan Koehler from the Peanut Commission, Brad Calhoun, David Mathis, Sarah Cook

Photo by: Prime Images Media by Caldwell and Associates

The State of Georgia gives $55,000 towards the Big Peanut Monument restoration

Pictured at front steps of Turner County Courthouse

1st: Ashley Miller (Executive Director Ashburn-Turner Co. Chamber), Nick Denham (County Commissioner), Dennis Kendrick (Young Farmer Advisor), Sheriff Andy Hester, Mayor Sandra Lumpkin (Ashburn),…

Huge Peanut Proclaims Turner No. 1

Tags: Ashburn, Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce, Big Peanut Monument, Gold Kist Peanuts, I-75, Interstate 75, Nora Lawrence Smith (1885-1971), The Wiregrass Farmer

The Plastic Peanut

Tags: Ashburn, Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce, Big Peanut Monument, Gold Kist Peanuts, I-75, Interstate 75, Nora Lawrence Smith (1885-1971), The Wiregrass Farmer

Peanuts in the South Make Quite a Spread

Tags: Ashburn, Big Peanut Monument, Nora Lawrence Smith (1885-1971)

Monument to a Peanut

Tags: Ashburn, Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce, Big Peanut Monument, Gold Kist Peanuts, I-75, Interstate 75, John Rogers, Nora Lawrence Smith (1885-1971), Serro Travel Trailer Co., The Wiregrass Farmer

Wiregrass Mystery

Tags: Alapaha River, Ashburn, Daniel Henderson Davis (1861-1942), Deep Creek, Ross Lake, Ross Lake Road, Turner County Courthouse

Example of 'Before and After Taking' Shown in Georgia Farm Improvements

Tags: Ashburn, James Simon "J.S." Shingler (1859-1943)

$2,041 Claim Filed Against Ex-Sheriff

Tags: Arthur Riddick Smith (1886-1975), Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Hezekiah Wesley Bussey Jr. (1883-1961), Turner County Board of Commissioners, Turner County Superior Court, Wesley H. Fiveash Sr. (1922-2010), William J. Fiveash (1919-1995)

Dead Girl's Family Await Poison Case Development

Tags: Amboy, Ashburn, Mattie Marchman, Minnie Marchman, Tan Cleghorn

TV show spotlights Turner County deaths

Tags: Ashburn, Deborah Ann Wheeler Wideman (1953-2002), Larry Wheeler, Melissa Ann Wideman (1981-2002), Pleasant Hill Baptist Church (Rebecca), Rebecca, Rebecca City Council, Thomas Joe "Tommy Joe" Wideman (1950-2002), Turner County Courthouse

Governor redefines 'emergency' funding

Tags: Ashburn, Ashburn Historic Preservation Committee, Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce, Big Peanut, Big Peanut Monument, Crime and Punishment Museum, Glenda Wilson McCann (1947-2020), Ray Holland, Shelley Zorn, Turner County Jail

Ashburn Men Accused of Beating Negro

The two men [William Fiveash and Ernest Whiddon] were charged with beating Arthur Scott in violation of his constitutional rights on August 3, 1955, two days before Scott testified against Wesley H. Fiveash in a larceny after trust trial in Turner…

Tags: Arthur Scott (1915-1989), Ashburn, Charles S. Hunt (1899-1974), Ernest Whiddon, Turner County Superior Court, Wesley H. Fiveash Sr. (1922-2010), William J. Fiveash (1919-1995)