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People from Thomasville, Georgia (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "People from Thomas County, Georgia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Thomasville Furniture began as Thomasville Chair Company in 1904, making 500 to 1000 chairs a day by 1905. Thomas Jefferson Finch and Charles F. Finch of Randolph County bought the company in 1907. Lambeth Furniture began in 1901 and was sold to Knox Furniture in 1928 and Thomasville Chair in 1932. [1]
Carl Flipper taught leatherwork and shoemaking at an industrial school "The Death of Flipper's Mother" (The Atlanta Constitution, August 29, 1887) Advertorial biography of Rev. J. S. Flipper (The Atlanta Constitution, 1915) The Flipper family in Atlanta in the 1870 census; their neighbor, Prince Ponder, a wheelwright, had also been enslaved by the Ponders [1]
Thomas J. Turner (May 11, 1932 – March 18, 2016) was an American politician. ... Turner served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974. [2]
Thomasville is the county seat of Thomas County, Georgia, United States.The population was 18,881 in 2020. The city deems itself the "City of Roses" and holds an annual Rose Festival. The city features plantations open to the public, a historic downtown, a large farmer's market, and an oak tree from about 1680 at the corner of Monroe and C
Alonzo Green worked as an axeman in a local sawmill. He had married Cora in 1902 and had two children James D. (b. abt 1901) and Annie M. (b. abt 1903). White farmer Silas Hardin Turner was a prominent planter in Jones County, Georgia and the son of John D. Turner (1851-1930) and Mattie Hardin (1865-1946).
In 1947 James Erwin Lambeth Jr and his wife Katherine Lambeth renamed it the Erwin-Lambeth company. They built a new plant with the aim to create furniture specifically for the design trade. A designer, Katherine Lambreth was the first president of the company. Erwin-Lambreth produced high-end mid century furniture and accessories such as table ...
Paradise Park Historic District is located in Thomasville, Georgia.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 1984 with an increase in 2002. [1] It consists of Thomasville's Paradise Park, and properties including 15 contributing buildings and one non-contributing building.