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Advertising Crisp, Dooly, Turner and Wilcox County

Turner County can be found on pages 10, 11, 18, and 19.

Tags: A.J. Biles, Ashburn, Ashburn Bank, Ashburn Distributing Company, Ashburn Methodist Church, Ashburn Realty and Insurance Co., B.E. SMith, Betts-Evans Trading Company, C.B. Young, C.H. Bishop, C.T. Maddux, Cantaloupes, Clarence Emmett "C.E." Thrasher (1875-1946), Corn, Cotton, Crystal Lake, Dock Henry Rose (1878-1947), Dr. James H. Baxter, Dr. Warren L. Story (1865-1949), Edwin A. Rogers (1881-1954), Exchange Bank of Sycamore, Farmers & Merchants Bank, Fenner & Smith's Tobacco Warehouse, First Baptist Church, Fountain Trading Co., George B. Gorday (1869-1940), Harden Seed Company, J.H Childs, Joe McHancock, Joel Smith "J.S." North (1894-1955), John A. McCall, John Henry Gilmore (12/20/1851 - 9/6/1920), John J. Henderson (1800-1870), John Lamkin "J.L." Evans (1874-1934), John R. Murphy, John S. Johnson (1888-1984), L.W. Green, Muscadine grapes, North's Garage, Peaches, Peanuts, Pecans, Peoples Bank, Planters Bank, Rebecca, Rebecca Baptist Church, Rebecca Methodist Church, Rebecca School, S.S. Young, Samuel James Evans (1888-1974), scuppernong grapes, Sweet Potatoes, Sycamore, Sycamore School, Tobacco, W.A. Hasty, W.G. Shingler, W.J. Dickson, Warren Paulk, Watermelon, William A. Shingler (1859-1922)

Murray Road Peanut Field

Tags: Murray Road, Peanut Field, Peanuts, Samantha "Sami" Mastrario

Farming Polaroids

photo 1:
BUG AND MARGENE WYNN IN A COTTON FIELD.
DATE: SEPTEMBER 23, 1991

photo 2:
BUG WYNN AND KEITH CARTER IN A PEANUT FIELD.
DATE: SEPTEMBER 11, 1992

Tags: Cotton, Keith Carter, Margene Wynn, Peanuts, Venton Charles "Bug Wynn

Hardy Farms Peanut Stand

Location: Old Chicken Delite on the corner of Main St./Highway 41 & Monroe Avenue. in Ashburn, GA

Tags: Ashburn, Boiled Peanuts, Georgia Lou Cook, Hardy Farms Peanut Stand, Highway 41, Main St., Main Street, Monroe Ave., Peanuts, Samantha “Sami” Mastrario, Sami Mastrario, Washington Avenue, Wyatt S. Cook

Focus on Georgia - Turner County

Note:
The Sparrow's Nest was built in 1892, not 1888. The Shinglers were living in an abandoned one-room schoolhouse in 1888 with one-year-old Beverly Clyde born in Eastman in 1897. Mr. JS Betts built his home in 1892 coming to town from Wanee Lake…

Plowing up peanuts

Plowing up peanuts at Phil Coley Farms.

Tags: Peanuts, Phil Coley, Samantha "Sami" Mastrario, Sami Mastrario, Steven Poole

Chamber of Commerce Plans A Monument to Peanut on 1-75

"A giant 30-foot emblem saluting the peanut and 'the world's largest peanut shelling plant' has been proposed for location in a rest area north of Ashburn on the boundary of Interstate 75."

Second article clipping:
"...the first time architect…

Tags: Arthur Smith, Ashburn-Turner County Chamber of Commerce, Big Peanut Monument, Charles B. Perry (1943-2013), Dr. George P. Donaldson (Georgia Peanut Commission president), Georgia Peanut Commission, Gold Kist Peanuts, Harvey Christopher "H.C." Barber Jr. (1926-2015), John R. Rogers, National Peanut Council, Peanuts, Quality Courts Restaurant, Rev. George Herndon, Terry Norris (Peanut Princess of Worth County), The Wiregrass Farmer

Picking up Dried Peanuts and Loading

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.

Tags: Coley Farms, Harvest, John Deere, Peanuts, Phil Coley, Steven Poole