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Evans-Applewhite House, Ashburn

Ashburn GA Turner County Evans Applewhite House Folk Victorian Queen Anne Architecture Mansion House Abandoned Sunset Picture Image Photo © Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2012

This grand old home is in the process of being restored, I believe. When I photographed it I was under the impression that it was abandoned but I’m glad someone is taking the time to properly renovate it.

Ashburn GA Turner County Evans Applewhite House Folk Victorian Queen Anne Architecture Mansion House Abandoned Interior Tile Mantle Chair Rails Picture Image Photo © Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2012

http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/2009/01/20/applewhite-evans-house-ashburn/

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Depot Street, Rebecca

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Folk Victorian, Rebecca

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Rebecca Methodist Church

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Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, 1888, Rebecca

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was organized in 1876 by a missionary preacher, James R. Fields, who had several other nearby churches in his charge. At the time of its founding, Rebecca was known as Grover; the present church building dates to circa 1888. One of the more interesting rules of church decorum (essentially a set of governing by-laws):

“If any member of the Church shall give a party of dance…they shall consider themselves cited to conference.”

To view a PDF of the church history:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/turner/pleasanthill.html

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Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery

Allen Smith (26 March 1822 – 21 May 1898)

Mary Smith (4 J uly 1827 – 6 May 1913)

Martha Ann J. Rountree (7 November 1833 – 25 October 1913)

Private J. Robert McElmurray, Company B, 8th Battallion, Georgia State Guards, CSA

(1843 – 1931)

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Vernacular Farmhouse, Bell Road

To see an earlier view:

http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/2008/08/17/bell-road-farmhouse/

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World’s Largest Peanut, 1975, Ashburn

This kitschy monument has been promoting Georgia’s largest cash crop to passersby on I-75 for nearly forty years. Designed by A. R. Smith, Jr., it was sponsored by the Georgia Peanut Commission as a tribute to the peanut industry and as a memorial to Nora Lawrence Smith, longtime editor and publisher of The Wiregrass Farmer. And while there are other monuments to America’s favorite legume scattered around the country, this one is the largest.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2071

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Railroad Street, Rebecca

Rebecca remains one of my favorite places to visit when I’m near my hometown of Fitzgerald. This is the “main drag”, or what once was. The building on the left is the city hall.

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Eclectic Folk Victorian, Sycamore

For a detailed view of the bay window:

http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/2008/10/20/eclectic-folk-victorian-sycamore/


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Sycamore Gin

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