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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)…

Morning Reports for July 1944: Roll 112 (3 of 3)

Control Number

National Archives Identifier

479269235

Once a guardhouse at the Prisoner of War (POW) camp located in Ashburn, Georgia from 1943-1946. This one is located on Raney Street in Ashburn with another on Monroe Avenue. According to current Raney St. owner Susan Watson, "It was purchased by the…

Letter from a POW prisoner, Gerhard Lorenz, who was once at the Turner County POW camp and worked for Mr. Chester Lee "C.L." Wilson of Chula, Georgia.

Chester's wife's name was Unez Pilkinton Wilson. This could explain the Pilkinton family…

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"Here are the men who investigated conditions in Georgia prison camps."

Bulletin 121
Page 24 mentions the Turner County Chain Gang
In institutions January 1, 1910: 12 Males, all black
Committed in 1910: 25 males, black; 2 males, white.

"A count showed that 210 students already have been enrolled as prospective attendants at a private school which has been proposed by a citizens' group..."

"The crowd which turned out to discuss plans for the private school - an effort to take…

Only 75 students have paid the 50% of tuition for the new proposed private school. They are considering only making it for grades 1-9 due to lack of high school student registration.

"Plans to establish a private school here apparently have been forsaken in favor of support for other independent schools nearby."

"Confronted with a Federal Court order to abolish a dual school system by integrating all students and faculties, the Turner County Board of Education met..."

Turner County was one of 81 systems that were required to integrate or risk losing their…

"The prohibition rally at this place today was a success. About three hundred persons attended..."


Location: Nesmith Rd. In Coverdale, GA

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