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. 

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: 

http://ww2.valdosta.edu/turpentine/

SIGHTS SELDOM SEEN - BABYLAND

It is indeed the saddest sight along the side of the roads of Laurens County.  Babyland is located along the front hedge just west of the main entrance to Memorial Gardens Cemetery, located on U.S. Highway 80 between Dublin and Dudley, Georgia.

The area was set aside as the final resting place of the tiny infant children who were tragically taken

from their parents and their families.  

It is so, so sad.

SIGHTS SELDOM SEEN - SADDLE IN THE PINES

You can see this rare sight in the Linda Vista Subdivision on Shamrock Drive 

in Dublin, Georgia   Sometimes called an"Indian Trail Tree," these pines

are at least forty years old. 

SIGHTS SELDOM SEEN - WELL BENEATH THE CARNEGIE

DUBLIN'S FORMER CARNEGIE LIBRARY 

WAS BUILT IN 1904 ON THE FORMER SITE

OF THE DUBLIN CITY HALL, SCHOOL AND

MASONIC LODGE.  THE TRIANGULAR LOT WAS

FORMERLY A LOW LYING AREA MAKING

IT PRACTICAL TO PLACE A SHALLOW PUBLIC WELL ON WHAT WAS THEN, 

THE WESTERN END OF TOWN.

THE WELL STILL REMAINS, DECORATED BY A SMALL BUT HARDY GROUP OF FERNS. 

SIGHTS SELDOM SEEN - FLAG POLE, MADISON STREET POST OFFICE, DUBLIN, GEORGIA

Virtually every flag pole on all public buildings

in America are made of steel, iron, aluminum 

or some type of metal.  The original  1912 flag pole

above Dublin's first permanent post office,

which still stands atop of the building, 

is actually crafted from a tree. 

SIGHTS SELDOM SEEN - HALF A CENTURY OLD CHRISTMAS LIGHTS - CADWELL, GEORGIA

Christmas on the 4th of July

Many of you have passed under these 

Christmas lights in Cadwell, Georgia 

Even on this day,the 4th of July.

So Happy Birthday America, where

in Cadwell, Georgia, the Christmas 

lights have been hanging above

the highway for more than 40 years.