Date: February 28, 2021
Location: E College Avenue in Ashburn, GA.
Mitchell-Stewart Alleyway Advertisement
The Old Maid’s Club
Found in the Turner County Diamond Jubilee book, page 61.
FAA Traffic Control Tower
Location: Oak Grove Rd. In Ashburn, Ga
date: August 14, 2021
11-Layer Caramel Cake
Date: August 18, 2019
Budget of Ashburn Public Schools school year 1935-1936
As is typical of Jim Crow South, white teachers made significantly more money than there black counterparts. Schooling may have been separate but they are far from equal. To see more papers for the Ashburn…
Downtown Tile Detail
Location: N. Gordon St. in Ashburn, GA
Date: October 27, 2022
Old Hawpond School
Location: Haw Pond Rd.
Date: July 3, 2021
Donald Garrett
On a warm, Sunday afternoon, the Turner County Project sat down with Donald Garrett and his daughter Lisa Garrett Bonnell to talk about car hops, milk routes, and his family legacy in Turner County. What made this interview so special was sitting in Old Hopewell Church which stands today due to a generous land donation from Donald’s great-grandparents, Alvah Pinkney “A.P.” and Mary Rooks Haman in 1903.
Joan Sellars Lorenzen
The first of this “mini interview” People of Turner County series is Joan Sellars Lorenzen who currently lives in Rebecca, GA but has lived in Turner County her whole life. She shares her memory of the Turner Theatre, which unfortunately burned down on July 25, 1972.
Fresh Green Boiled Peanuts
Location: 137 S. Main St in Ashburn, GA
Date: September 17, 2022
