I CAN’T STOP WALKING - In the movies Forest Gump did it many times. In real life many others have done it. One of the first to walk across the country and through Laurens County was Tom B. Turner. Turner bet a friend that he could walk from Pacific to Atlantic by Thanksgiving. He set out from San Francisco on May 1, 1914. He walked through the flatter southern states. Turner reached Dublin on October 30th. He had spent the day before in his home town of Macon. He hoped to visit his uncle, W.P. Mahone, while in Dublin. Unfortunately, Mr. Mahone had just moved away. Turner left Dublin on Halloween Day after visiting with a few of his friends. Turner, a manager of a branch of the Standard Oil Company in California, easily made it to Savannah by Thanksgiving. Dublin Courier Herald, November 5, 1914, p. 9.
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