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Rebecca-Waterloo Rd.
Sycamore, GA

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Location: Clements Chapel Rd. in Coverdale, Georgia

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Compliments of Woody Ansley
Seed- Feed - Fertilizer - Insecticides
Griffin Warehouse Seed Store
Ashburn, GA
Phone 95
Sycamore, GA
Phone 220

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Shivers Rd. in Rebecca, Georgia

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What is your go-to grits order? Are you a simple butter and salt kind of person, cheese, or do you want all the toppings in your grits?

Pictured: Grits with scrambled egg and cheese on top, biscuits and sausage gravy, and smoke sausage…

Photos of Turner County Jail from National Register of Historic Places application.pdf
From Application:
"The Turner County jail was built in 1906 as the newly formed (1905) county's first jail. County records show the first order of business was issuing $60,000 in bonds for a jail and courthouse. The jail was designed by Wagoner &…

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page 3

"The contract for the building of a court house for Turner County was let to McKenzie & Sons, of Atlanta, Ga., today for the sum of $37,800. Contract is to be completed January 1, 1908."

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Location: Forshee Rd. in Coverdale, GA

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Location: Coverdale Highway in Ashburn, GA

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Cpt. Lawrence Hancock was among the many thousands killed in Iwo Jima during the fierce fighting there. He was killed March 17 in action according to a telegram received from the War Department to his sister, Mrs. Estelle Hay.

Cpl. Hancock was…

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Location: Cravey Rd in Sycamore, GA

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CRYSTAL LAKE
World's Finest Natural Fresh Water Beach, Near Ashburn, Fitzgerald, Ocilla, and Tifton, Georgia.

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This photo is of William Cluria "Curly" Garrett. He used to be the manager at the Ashburn Skating Rink in the 1950s. You can see Curly in front of the skate rack.

Turpentine Industry - A Scene at Clark_s Plantation, Ashburn, GA - postcard front.tif
Photo by U.S. Forest Service
A Scene at Clark's Plantation, Ashburn, GA.
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Negro Heben - A Watermelon Feast in Dixie - Greetings from Ashburn, GA - postcard front.tif
[editor's note: This postcard uses the language and depictions of the period to refer to African Americans.]
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Script:
Hi, Gal!
We sho are having a good time and surly wish you could be with us.
We haven't had on a coat since we got here…

Cotton Pickers at work in Dixieland - Greetings from Ashburn, GA - postcard front.tif
[editor's note: This postcard uses the language and depictions of the period to refer to African Americans.]
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A Busy Day in a Cotton Field Down South - Greetings from Ashburn, GA - postcard front.jpg
GREETINGS FROM ASHBURN, GA

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A Fine Field of Cotton in Dixieland - Greetings from Ashburn, GA - 4233C postcard front.jpg
GREETING FROM ASHBURN, GA
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Writing inscription on the back:
Left for Florida on our birthday just entered to day, even through the Smoky Mts. today. heading for Miami tomorrow, will be back soon.
Your Friend, I.O.

Addressed to:
Mrs.…

Deacon Kills a Deacon then Kills Himself - The Greenville News (SC) 27 Aug 1911 page 1.PNG
"R.G. Whidden [Whiddon], a well-to-do farmer and a church deacon, living near here, shot and killed J.M. Lawson, a neighbor and also a deacon, today at church on the Whidden [Whiddon] farm, and then committed suicide..."

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