Schley County GaArchives Photo place.....Donna Lynn Motel 
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Ernie Jones http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007882 February 10, 2004, 11:08 pm

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The big bldg. to the left (west) of this now demolished Donna Lynn motel was 
the high school gym.  Still standing, and I believe is being used now as 
community rec. center.  The front of the gym and the motel face south (on Hwy 
26, 1/2 block from main intersection.)  
 
The rear of the gym is only about 50 yards from the rear of the high SCHS 
auditorium.
 
The rear of the gym housed the 1st and 2nd grades when I attended in '53-'54.  
Complete with pot bellied stoves for heat.  Those 2 rooms were later used for 
the boys & girls basketball dressing rooms.  The tiny "cloak rooms" were for 
the visiting basketball teams.   When we "graduated" to 3rd grade, it was into 
the "high school bldg".   By the time I moved to 4th grade, it was into 
the "new" Palmer Elementary School about 1 mile west on 26.  Then back to 
the "big  school" for 8th thru 12th grades.   
 
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If you're familiar with the painting on the dust jacket of the "History of 
Schley County Georgia" book, there is a Gulf Oil gas station shown on the NW 
corner of Ellaville's main intersection.  The east end of the Donna Lynn Motel 
was only a few yards from the rear of that gas station.  The Donna Lynn was 
named for the daughter of "Mr. Bedie" (Beatry) E. Pelham.   The same B.E. 
Pelham who bought the Dr. Sears property (on Broad Street) and demolished the 
house (to build a ranch style home).  

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