- Collection:
- Warner Robins Heritage Society Oral History Project
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Clint Tanner and Dan Stewart, 2013 April 6, part two
- Creator:
- Tanner, Clint
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stewart, Daniel
Buzzell, Marsha Priest - Publisher:
- Warner Robins Heritage Society Oral History Project, Houston County Public Library System
- Date of Original:
- 2013-04-06
- Subject:
- Warner Robins (Ga.)--History
Robins Air Force Base (Ga.)
Medical care--Georgia--Warner Robins
Story family
Cemeteries--Georgia--Houston County
Railroads--Georgia--Houston County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Houston County, Warner Robins, 32.61574, -83.62664
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Description:
- Oral history interview with Clint Tanner and Dan Stewart conducted by Marsha Priest Buzzell on April 6, 2013 as part of the Warner Robins Heritage Society Oral History Project. The project was sponsored by the Warner Robins Rotary Club and Flint Energies.
Tanner, Warner Robins resident. Stewart is his nephew, a physician, and a resident of Warner Robins since 1986.
Tanner discusses the "Shoo-Fly" and a nearby open-air recreation area built by the railroad. -- Tanner discusses the changes in appearance of the Air Force base's main gate and the oak tree located nearby. -- Tanner describes Watson Boulevard's changing route. -- Tanner talks about cemeteries on Warner Robins Air Force Base. -- Dan Stewart discusses a family cemetery plot off of Russell Parkway and history of the family buried there. -- Stewart discusses the Story family genealogy project he was working on. -- Stewart talks about the efforts to preserve the cemetery when the WalMart on Booth Road was being built.
00:13:59 - Tanner reflects on the role of base closures in Mobile, Alabama and Middletown, Pennsylvania on the growth of Warner Robins. -- Stewart discusses Route 96 as the "dividing line" in Houston County and being a physician in the county. -- Stewart touches on the political "movers and shakers" in southern Houston County, Sam Nunn and Larry Walker. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/hlp_wroh_tanner002
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/wroh/id:tanner002
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Warner Robins Heritage Society Oral History Project, Houston County Public Library System
- Holding Institution:
- Houston County Public Library System
- Rights:
-
