Saturday, August 20, 2016

Saturday, August 13, 2016

GASOLINE PUMP - CLAXTON HOSPITAL, BELLEVUE AVENUE, DUBLIN, GEORGIA

This ancient gasoline pump is one a few surviving
remnants of the hospital of Dr. E.B. Claxton on Bellevue
Avenue in Dublin, GA,  located a few blocks west of Dublin City Hall
opposite the Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store. 





Saturday, August 6, 2016

TURPENTINE BARRELS, AND CUPS

MAIN ROAD

LAURENS COUNTY PORTION
OF ORIANNA, GEORGIA 


These remnants of our past come from an
era when commercial turpentine 
operations flourished in southern 
Laurens County and especially
Treutlen County and South
Georgia.  The commercial turpentine
operations ended in Georgia about a dozen 
years ago.

For a history of turpentine operations in Georgia, see: