Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter each completed eleven years of schooling here. Jimmy graduated at the top of his class of twenty-four students in 1941, and Rosalynn was the valedictorian of her class of sixteen in 1944. A vernacular example of formal Classical Revival styling, the building was erected in 1921 and was a focus of activity in the small rural town of Plains.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-95

Survey number: HABS GA-2206

Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1979

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