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Turner County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,006. [1] The county seat is Ashburn. [2] The county was created on August 18, 1905, and named for Henry G. Turner, U.S. representative and Georgia state Supreme Court justice. [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.
Shortly thereafter the company also purchased the 2-story building which was the newspaper's second location in Ashburn. The Wiregrass Farmer has had five managing editors in its more than 100 years: Lawrence, Smith, Austin Saxon, Dave Taylor (for a six-month period), and present co-owner and B&H Executive editor Ben Baker, who has worked for ...
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.
On 2 November 1982, the city of Keizer was incorporated and named in honor of Thomas D. Keizur. At the time, the city's population was 19,650. The city continues to grow. As of 2016, the estimated population of Keizer was 38,980. [22] [23] [24] In 2010, a large bronze statue of Keizur on horseback was installed at the Keizer Civic Center.
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 ...
Turner County initially had two separate high schools. In 1957, the two schools consolidated to form the current Turner County High School. At the time the school was founded, only whites were permitted to attend.
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.