Recreation Department Camp - Stubbs Park

Dublin Parks and Recreation Day

Stubbs Park, Dublin School Playground

ca. 1960

Photos Courtesy of the Laurens County History Society.

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Dublin's First Dialed Telephone Call

PRE CIVIL WAR HOME ON GLENWOOD ROAD AT LAURENS-WHEELER COUNTY LINE.

Old "Burch?" Home on Georgia Highway 19 South, Glenwood Road just north of the Laurens-Wheeler County line.  The front portion of this house is built in a style which was most common before the Civil War. 

Does anyone have any information about the house and its former owners?  If so, comment here or email the Historical Society at dublinhistory@yahoo.com.

THOMAS - TROUP HOUSE - OLD MACON ROAD

A rare photo of the Old Thomas house at the northwest corner of Thomas' Cross Road (Old Macon Road and Old Hawkinsville Road.   The area was settled by the Thomas family as early as 1807 and was the governmental center of Laurens County when the first county courthouse was built.   

The house, possibly more than 175 years old,  was purchased by Gov. George M. Troup, of Laurens County before his death in 1856.  It remained in the family for nearly a half century. For many years, the property was owned by Howard L. Cordell, Sr..  Tragically, the house burned several years ago. 

Buckhorn, Georgia Post Office

Farmers and Merchants Bank - Brewton, Georgia

The original Farmers and Merchants Bank 

in Brewton, Georgia.

Constructed on Jackson Street, facing the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad circa. 1910, this building stood until a few years ago.  

The bank moved to Dublin in the late 1930s.

ANCIENT BELLEVUE GAZEBO

This marvelous structure was once located at the home of Col. W.S. Ramsay, former teacher, Baptist minister and one of the youngest colonels in the Confederate Army.

Ramsay's house was located at the southeast corner of Bellevue and Ramsay Streets.  The gazebo, thought to have been built before 1900, was moved and placed in the back yard of Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Page just across Ramsay Street from the Ramsay home. 

DUBLIN HIGH SCHOOL - NORTH CALHOUN STREET, MID 1940S

This was Dublin High School in the late 1940s.  It was first constructed at Calhoun Street School and later became the High School.   The building, which was located closer to thecorner of North Calhoun Street and Woodrow Avenue, was burned in the early 1950s.  Plans to restore the partially burned school were abandoned in favor of a modern, state-funded school which was built shortly thereafter and served students until 2002. 

Shell Station - Bellevue Avenue at Lancaster St., Dublin, GA

Preston Joiner's Shell Station at the intersection of Bellevue Avenue, Lancaster Street and Bellevue Road, Dublin, Georgia.  Now the home of Bubba's Tire. 

The White Spot

The White Spot Restaurant and Service Station was located on the south side of U.S. Highway 80 West, Veteran's Blvd. in Dublin, GA from the 1950s through the mid 1970s.  It was located between the Burger King and Farmers State Bank.  The house in the rear is the Hodges Hospital on Bellevue Road, which was located at the rear of the Burger King.  Please share your memories of this iconic part of Dublin's not to distant past. 

Please share your memories of this once iconic place in western Dublin.

DEXTER CITY HALL

DEXTER 

CITY HALL

CA. 1911

Orianna Methodist Church, Laurens County, Georgia

This Methodist Church was built in the early 1900s and was located in the town of Orianna, Georgia, which lies mostly in Treutlen County, Georgia, but partly in Laurens County.  It was demolished in the late 1980s.

DUBLIN'S FIRST FARMERS FURNITURE STORE

Founded by Sherwin Glass in 1949 as a hometown store in Soperton, Georgia, Farmers Home Furniture has since become one of the fastest growing furniture retailers, with over 187 locations throughout the Southeast.

Glass moved his operations to Dublin and opened this store on the northwest corner of the Courthouse Square in the H.H. Smith Building. 

This photo, taken in the early 1970s, was the flagship store of the chain, for many years.

Today, Farmers Home Furniture is one of the top 100 furniture companies in the country and one of the largest privately owned companies based in Georgia. We are committed to providing our customers with the best possible service and selection - that's why we tailor each store to its town, matching product selection to the customers.

Paul Bunyan on North Jefferson Street.

ED POWEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Ed Powel & His Orchestra (undated): 

Front Row: Cletus Calvert, Ed Powel, Jimmy Townsend, Howard Cordell, Jr, Nell Young,

Back Row: Unknown (3) Drummer: ? Scoyners

Submitted by Darlene Calvert Farrell.

Ed Powel and his wife, Sara Jo,  operated an tv, electronics and record store in Dublin for many years.  From the 1930s to the 1950s, Powel's orchestra was very much in demand for dances in Dublin and the surrounding area. 

THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, DUBLIN, GEORGIA

Photographs of the Church of the Immaculate Conception

Dublin, Georgia

submitted by Darlene Calvert Farrell

from "The Missionary Servant" magazine

December 1960

On a mission with an area greater than Connecticut the priests necessarily spend many hours a week driving to and from churches and homes. Many of the houses along the road are empty - signs of the strong trend to the cities...(Highway 96-Houston County) 

Palma Waller and Louise Ludwig 

Father Bateman and Father McDyre...Downtown Dublin, GA 1960 

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The Fathers on a tour in a Dublin plywood plant... Damian Waller, Fathers McDyre and Bateman 

Cletus Calvert (my dad), Francis Lewis, Carole Calvert (my sister) and Candance Cebula...Each Sunday after Mass a large part of the adult congregation remains to teach catechism. All available space in church and rectory is used.

Father Cajetan McDyre visiting the Dublin VA Hospital, where he offered Mass on Sundays and holidays...500 patients and 500 residents

Irvinton's Sacred Heart Chapel...at Perry, Ga, Mass offered in the cafeteria of a factory. Churches in Ft Valley and Sandersville also

Father McDyre and Rose Buffington with the littlest ones learning about God

Father McDyre and Rose Buffington with the littlest ones learning about God.

Halloween 

WRIGHTSVILLE AND TENNILLE RAILROAD DEPOT, BREWTON, GA. CA. 1899.

THE HOME OF EARLY AND HATTIE HOBBS, submitted by Mary Ellen Sharp

The attached picture is of a house 3 miles from the old courthouse square on GA 257.  It was built in the early 1900s, probably around 1910, by Early and Hattie Hobbs.  It was back from the road behind a pecan grove.  The land was originally purchased in the late 1860s by Robert F. Maddox and then was inherited by his daughter Hattie.  Pictured are Estoria Hobbs (young girl) on left, Early Hobbs standing behind Hattie, W. A. Lee and Lila Hobbs Lee, with children Mavis and baby Carl. 

 Contributed by Mary Ellen Sharp, the great gramd aughter of Early Washington Hobbs and Hattie Maddox Hobbs.  The property was originally purchased from Col. Stubbs by Robert F Maddox in the late 1860s after the civil war.  Robert Maddox was my gggrandfather.  He is burried in alittle family cemetery by the side of 257 just above the property of John and Estoria Hobbs Brown.  If you are interested I have a picture of that cemetery.  If you are familiar with the Frank Waldrip property and the little meat market, it is just beyond that.  The little meat market property was once part of that property. 

Zacariah and Elizabeth Kennedy at Moore Station, Laurens County, Georgia.

Zachariah and Elizabeth Kennedy and their children in front of Moore Station

Submitted by Bunny Smith

The Original Laurens County Airport, ca. 1950

DUBLIN COUNTRY CLUB

DUBLIN COUNTRY CLUB

Late 1950s

Photos by Irene Claxton 

DUBLIN POLICE FORCES OF THE PAST

As the City of Dublin prepares to swear in a new chief of police, here is a look at the police forces of the past.

Chiefs of Police

Dublin, Georgia 

1899-2016 

John Asa Peacock - 1899-1904

Jesse L. Cowart - 1905 - 1906

John B. Hightower - 1906-1915

J.J. Flanders - 1916 -  1921

E.S. Ennis - 1922 - 1923

E.E. Clarke - 1925-1928

Edward C. Pierce b1929- 1937

J.W. Robertson - 1938 - 1946

J. Wesley Stubbs - b.1947 - 1951 (killed in the line of duty)

Tillman Jones - 1951-1961

Frank Brantley (Acting) 1955

Bob L. Larkin 1961-1963

Bill Mallory (Acting) 1964

W.D. Josey - 1964-1967

Bill Mallory (Acting) 1966

T.J. McMurrian - 1967 - 1970

Vernon DeLoach - 1970 - 1976

Frank Owens - 1976-1985

Wayne Fuqua - 1985 - 1997

Bobby Woodard - 1997-2002

Wayne Cain - 2003-2015

Tim Chatman - 2016-

Laurens County Jail, 1905 to 1964

Located in the current county parking lot 

at the intersection of East Jackson Street 

and South Franklin Street. 

Designed by Rev. George C. Thompson

Architect and Methodist Minister

THE LAURENS COUNTY BOOKMOBILE

The Laurens County Bookmobile took books to the remotest rural areas of Laurens County from 1952 until 1992.  These photos, taken by Irene Claxton, show a typical scene in front of a Laurens County rural home in the circa 1960.