Found in the Turner County Diamond Jubilee book, page 61.


Found in the Turner County Diamond Jubilee book, page 61.

Location: Oak Grove Rd. In Ashburn, Ga
date: August 14, 2021

Date: August 18, 2019




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…

Location: N. Gordon St. in Ashburn, GA
Date: October 27, 2022

Location: Haw Pond Rd.
Date: July 3, 2021

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.

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.

Location: 137 S. Main St in Ashburn, GA
Date: September 17, 2022

2,526 words, 13-minute read(updated February 2026) In 1954, in perhaps one of the most groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court rulings, Chief Justice Earl Warren and the rest of the Court’s unanimous decision in the case Brown…