Plains Public Housing, No. 9A, Paschal & Thomas Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: After his father's death in 1953, Jimmy Carter left the U.S. Navy and returned to Plains to take over the family peanut business. The Carters and their three young sons moved into unit 9A of the Dura Apartments, one of six Federal Housing Projects built by the Americus Housing Authority in 1953 in Plains and the nearby towns of Leslie and Andersonville. The residence, not surprisingly, is an unadorned, utilitarian space, for as Carter wrote in Why Not the Best?, "Not having any assured income, we applied for and were assigned an apartment in the new housing project in Plains."
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-99
Survey number: HABS GA-2210
Building/structure dates: 1953 Initial Construction