Turner County GaArchives News.....ASHBURN'S RAPID GROWTH November 28, 1901
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Savannah Morning  News/ Ashburn Journal November 28, 1901
                           ASHBURN'S RAPID GROWTH
                              28 November 1901

     Ashburn Journal: Twelve years ago the whistle of the first locomotive on
the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad warned the unbroken forest of the
Wiregrass region of the approach or an army of home and fortune hunters. About
the time the road reached the site where the city of Ashburn now stands, the
vanguard of J. S. Betts & Co.'s saw mill crew appeared on the scene, and began
clearing up for the location of a saw mill plant. A two room house constituted
the only shelter, and was used as such by a few of the men-most of them used
tents. A few rough cabins were hastily constructed and the families of the mill
owners and their employee came to live here. As time passed on neat cottages and
beautiful homes having all the modern conveniences, began to spring up in the
places of many of those first rough cabins. the growth of Ashburn was steady
until, in 1900 the official census gave her a population of 1,031. Since that
time we have continued to increase in numbers--our population now numbers at
least 1,500.

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