LAST YEAR, OCT. 23, 2025
The Old School History Museum hosted Ashley Quinn of the William P. Wall Museum of Natural History at Georgia College & State University Oct. 5, in its latest installment of “Sunday at the Museum” lectures. Quinn’s presentation, “Finding Fossils in Georgia and the Largest Paleontology Collection in Georgia,” drew guests eager to learn.
FIVE YEARS AGO, OCT. 21, 2021
Scaffolding in front of the Pex theater came down around noon Monday after contractors completed stucco work on the facade. Although the scaffolds stood for several weeks, the stucco portion was completed on schedule with no delays aside from weather. The next order of business will be tile at the bottom of the building.
10 YEARS AGO, OCT. 20, 2016
The third time was a charm for those planning the demolition of the Plant Harlee Branch smokestack. The scheduled toppling of the iconic, towering south Putnam County structure had been canceled twice by officials with Georgia Power, who still control the smokestack site.
25 YEARS AGO, OCT. 25, 2001
Putnam County Girls Scouts Catrina Irene Burston, Ami Lynn Williamson and Amy Suzanne Williamson were each presented the Girl Scout Gold Award – the highest award a senior Girl Scout can earn – during a special ceremony Sunday at First Baptist Church in Eatonton.
50 YEARS AGO, OCT. 21, 1976
Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Sunday for a new sanctuary for St. John A.M.E. Church. Plans are for the $100,180 building to be situated on “Methodist Hill” on East Harris Street, east of the standing structure and parsonage.
75 YEARS AGO, OCT. 25, 1951
Eatonton’s new Colonial Store will be opened next Thursday, Nov. 1, manager N.L. Maddox said this week. For weeks now, the big store, formerly occupied by Chandler’s, has been undergoing a complete renovation. Now it is ready, and truckloads of goods are being brought in.
100 YEARS AGO, OCT. 22, 1926
Two stills, over a 75 gallon copper affair near the plant of Putnam Mills and Power Company, on Little River, and the other a 200-gallon, wooden apparatus, in the eastern section of the county in the Oconee River swamps, and 226 gallons of whiskey were captured last week by J.W.L. Tuggle, county policeman, assisted by state prohibition enforcement officers.