Ashburn’s Historic Driving Tour Stop #2
Location: 327 Hudson St. in Ashburn, Georgia
Date: February 20, 2021
327 Hudson Avenue, c. 1896
“Building A Better Ant”
Click to read the origin of the big read fire ant sculpture!
Time Marches On
Location: N Railroad Avenue in Sycamore, Georgia
Date: March 4, 2021
Monnie Street
Location: Monnie Street in Ashburn, Georgia
Date: August 12, 2021
Cotton Blossom
Location: Shivers Rd. in Rebecca, Georgia Date: July 24, 2021
Ashburn Public Schools Bank Statement, February 1935
The Ashburn Public Schools bank statement with Ashburn Bank dated February 26, 1935 with copies of 17 checks.
Mike Mastrario
On Sunday, July 4, 2021, the Turner County Project sat down with Mike Mastrario to talk about him and his wife Sue moving their whole family from South New Jersey all the way to small town Ashburn in the early 1990s. Getting this Yankee’s first impression of Turner County, talking about how he became the Turner County building inspector, and how he got involved in the community were just a few of the topics covered.
Akin Service Station Vintage Postcard
Location: Hwy 41 in Ashburn, GADate: 1940 From the Macon Telegraph, December 8, 1943 (page 3): Ashburn, Ga., Dec. 7- “Henry Grady Smith, age 33, died Saturday at the Tifton hospital from burns he received…
The Land of the Long Leaf Pine
“Have you been to the land of the long leaf pine,
The land of the cypress, the holly and vine?” … Poem by Dr. E.M. Pendleton
Joyce McHugh Reed
Turner County Project: What makes your sweet tea so special?
Joyce: Lots and lots of sugar.
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