THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - VOL. 56
THE HOME OF THE WALKING DEAD - Many of you may know that Senoia, Georgia in Coweta County is the site of the filming of the iconic and legendary Cable TV series, the Walking Dead. The shows popularity has been a boom to the economic and tourism of the once small Georgia town, some one hundred miles from Laurens County.
What you may not know is that many of the outdoor scenes were filmed on land leased to the studio by a former Dublin physician. For many seasons, AMC Studios filmed some of the shows most horrific and bloody scenes on the property of the late Dr. Henry Raymaker, a local psychologist, leading citizen, and student of politics.
ALL ABOARD! - John G. Coates, a resident of the Old Macon Road in Laurens County, was named the Postmaster of Coates Store, Georgia in March 1828. The Old Macon Road from Macon through Twiggs County through northwestern Laurens County, through Dublin, and along the Old Savannah Road until its terminus in Macon Telegraph, March 17, 1828.
FIRST TO FALL OUT OF THE SKY - Walter A. Warren, of Dublin, was one of the first two American aviators to be wounded in action in Europe in World I. Warren and Edward Ebsen, of Buffalo, Missourit, were shot down in France on December 7, 1919.
WEIRD WEATHER THIS YEAR - The meteorological year in 1925 was one of extremes, extreme rains and drought, as well as extreme cold and extreme heat. In one year, the level of the Oconee River, measured at Dublin, set an all time high and low up until that year. That summer was so hot (How hot was it?), that when Cap’n Woodard went out to check in his corn in the Shewmake community west of Dublin. To his utter amazement, one in eight of the grains he gathered were popped and all others were ready to pop into popcorn. The amazing crop was verified by the staff of the Dublin Courier Herald.
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