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GA 51, approximately .75 mi. E of the Franklin-Banks County line 34°22′16″N 83°22′48″W / 34.371111°N 83.38°W / 34.371111; -83.38 ( Strange-Duncan Carnesville
George Washington Ashburn (April 13, 1814 – March 31, 1868) was a Radical Republican US Senate candidate and judge assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan in Columbus, Georgia, for his pro-African-American actions. He was the first murder victim of the Klan in the state.
Westview Cemetery, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest civilian cemetery in the Southeastern United States, comprising more than 582 acres (2.36 km 2), 50 percent of which is undeveloped. The cemetery includes the graves of more than 125,000 people and was added to the Georgia Register of Historic Places in 2019 and the National ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The city of Ashburn is the county seat of Turner County, Georgia, United States. As of 2020, its population was 4,291. As of 2020, its population was 4,291. Ashburn's government is classified as a council/manager form of municipal government.
The Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester and Camilla Railway was founded in 1922 and operated a former line of the failed Gulf Line Railway from Ashburn, Georgia to Camilla, Georgia. The GAS&C was a subsidiary of the Georgia Northern Railway which was purchased by the Southern Railway in 1966 and operated as a subsidiary.
Nora Lawrence Smith (December 25, 1885 - July 17, 1971) [1] was a newspaper publisher and activist in Ashburn, Georgia. She has been called a "pioneer among women publishers" [1] and "one of the best known and most respected weekly editors in the state." [3] In 1974 she became the first woman inducted into the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Helen Miller Gould Shepard (June 20, 1868 – December 21, 1938) was an American philanthropist and member of the wealthy Gould family born in New York City. [1]