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Smiling Peanut, South Side of Highway 49, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Smiling Peanut, South Side of Highway 49, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Survey number: HABS GA-2308 Building/structure dates: 1976 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 2000 Subsequent Work

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

Plains Public Housing, No. 9A, Paschal & Thomas Streets, Plains, Sumte...

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 D... More

Sumter Crossroads, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Sumter Crossroads, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Ro...

Significance: This district comprises the core of the rural crossroads community of Sumter in Sumter County. The district contains five commercial buildings including two stores; a filling station, a cotton gin... More

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Examples of shotgun-style houses typical of rental property of the area ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2240 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Big Store, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Big Store, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower F...

Significance: This district consists of a historic farmhouse with its associated outbuildings and pecan groves. The structures are located on approximately 465 acres of farmland historically associated with th... More

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower F...

Significance: This district consists of a historic farmhouse with its associated outbuildings and pecan groves. The structures are located on approximately 465 acres of farmland historically associated with th... More

William Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

William Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. highway 19, Sumter, Sum...

Significance: The William Webb house is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register ... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter Count...

Significance: Last remaining cottage in a neighborhood of vernacular housing forms ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2237 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumt...

Significance: The house is contributing resource to the Webb Family Farm National Register district which consists of three historic farmhouses with their associated outbuildings and one non-historic house. The... More

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumt...

Significance: The house is contributing resource to the Webb Family Farm National Register district which consists of three historic farmhouses with their associated outbuildings and one non-historic house. The... More

Jimmy Carter House, 209 Woodland Drive, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Jimmy Carter House, 209 Woodland Drive, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: This is the first and only home the Carters have owned, and it has been the permanent residence of the family since 1961. The Carters residence in this modest 1960s ranch-style house corresponds w... More

Wise Sanatorium No. 1, Main Street, between Bond & Hudson Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 1, Main Street, between Bond & Hudson Streets, Pla...

Significance: The buildings in this business block were erected between 1896-1916 as brick was used to gradually replace original wood-frame structures. Situated southwest of the Plains Depot, this block was th... More

Plains Methodist Church, Highway 280 across from Thomas Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Plains Methodist Church, Highway 280 across from Thomas Street, Plains...

Significance: Rosalynn Carter attended this church until she married Jimmy Carter here on July 7, 1946. The brick, Romanesque-inspired structure was expanded several times to meet the needs of the congregation.... More

Rosalynn Carter Childhood Home, 219 South Bond Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Rosalynn Carter Childhood Home, 219 South Bond Street, Plains, Sumter ...

Significance: Rosalynn Carter's family moved to this house in 1928 when she was 16 months old, and she spent her life here until she wed Jimmy Carter in 1946. Architecturally, this turn-of-the-century gable-fro... More

William Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

William Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. highway 19, Sumter, Sumt...

Significance: The William Webb house is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register ... More

Ross Dean Funeral Home, Main Street between Bond & Hudson Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Ross Dean Funeral Home, Main Street between Bond & Hudson Streets, Pla...

Significance: The buildings in this business block were erected between 1896-1916 as brick was used to gradually replace original wood-frame structures. Situated southwest of the Plains Depot, this block was th... More

Ninety-two-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discusses the meaning of a biblical passage during his Sunday School lesson at the Maranantha Baptist Church in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia

Ninety-two-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discusses the m...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Barn and water tower near Plains in Sumter County, Georgia

Barn and water tower near Plains in Sumter County, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

129 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

129 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2286 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

129 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

129 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2286 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

304 East Jefferson Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

304 East Jefferson Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of shotgun-type house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2285 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower F...

Significance: This district consists of a historic farmhouse with its associated outbuildings and pecan groves. The structures are located on approximately 465 acres of farmland historically associated with th... More

514 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

514 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2288 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

513 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

513 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2302 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter Count...

Significance: Last remaining cottage in a neighborhood of vernacular housing forms ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2237 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Plains Depot, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Plains Depot, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Although architecturally modest, the wood-frame depot was the significant factor in the founding of Plains. When the railroad was built in 1885, the towns of Magnolia Springs and the Plain of Dura... More

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Commissary, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cemetery Road), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Commissary, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cem...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-90 Survey number: HABS GA-245-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 01000272

Lillian & Earl Carter House, Georgia Route 280 between Walters & Thomas Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Lillian & Earl Carter House, Georgia Route 280 between Walters & Thoma...

Significance: Lillian and Earl Carter moved into this house in 1947 and lived here until Earl Carter's death in 1953. After Lillian Carter died in 1983, the home was retained by the Carter's and is used as thei... More

121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2284 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumte...

Significance: The Emory Webb house is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register li... More

Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumte...

Significance: The Emory Webb house is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register li... More

Plains Methodist Church, Highway 280 across from Thomas Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Plains Methodist Church, Highway 280 across from Thomas Street, Plains...

Significance: Rosalynn Carter attended this church until she married Jimmy Carter here on July 7, 1946. The brick, Romanesque-inspired structure was expanded several times to meet the needs of the congregation.... More

Rosalynn Carter Childhood Home, 219 South Bond Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Rosalynn Carter Childhood Home, 219 South Bond Street, Plains, Sumter ...

Significance: Rosalynn Carter's family moved to this house in 1928 when she was 16 months old, and she spent her life here until she wed Jimmy Carter in 1946. Architecturally, this turn-of-the-century gable-fro... More

Ninety-two-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discusses the meaning of a biblical passage during his Sunday School lesson at the Maranantha Baptist Church in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia

Ninety-two-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discusses the m...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Scarecrow at the Maranantha Baptist Church in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia

Scarecrow at the Maranantha Baptist Church in Carter's hometown of Pla...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Cotton Gin, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Cotton Gin, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sum...

Survey number: HABS GA-2387 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

129 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

129 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2286 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Examples of shotgun-style houses typical of rental property of the area ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2240 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

514 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

514 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2288 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

Billy Carter Service Station, 216 West Church Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Billy Carter Service Station, 216 West Church Street, Plains, Sumter C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Emory Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Emory Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter...

Significance: The Emory Webb Farm is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register lis... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

513 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

513 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2302 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

George Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

George Webb Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumte...

Public domain photograph of a hotel, inn, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter Count...

Significance: Last remaining cottage in a neighborhood of vernacular housing forms ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2237 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Plains Depot, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Plains Depot, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Although architecturally modest, the wood-frame depot was the significant factor in the founding of Plains. When the railroad was built in 1885, the towns of Magnolia Springs and the Plain of Dura... More

Plains Depot, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Plains Depot, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Although architecturally modest, the wood-frame depot was the significant factor in the founding of Plains. When the railroad was built in 1885, the towns of Magnolia Springs and the Plain of Dura... More

Matthew Edmund Rylander House, Old Plains Highway (near Highway 280), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Matthew Edmund Rylander House, Old Plains Highway (near Highway 280), ...

Significance: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter rented this large house on the outskirts of town from 1956-1961. Formerly owned by Burr Thaddeus Wise, of of the founders of the Wise Sanitarium, this antebellum home is ... More

Carter Peanut Warehouse Complex, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Carter Peanut Warehouse Complex, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: When his father died in 1953, Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, returned to Plains to run the family peanut business. After making less that $200 profit during a difficult first year, they expa... More

Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Emory Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumte...

Significance: The Emory Webb house is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register li... More

Rosalynn Carter Childhood Home, 219 South Bond Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Rosalynn Carter Childhood Home, 219 South Bond Street, Plains, Sumter ...

Significance: Rosalynn Carter's family moved to this house in 1928 when she was 16 months old, and she spent her life here until she wed Jimmy Carter in 1946. Architecturally, this turn-of-the-century gable-fro... More

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Tenant House, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cemetery Road), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Tenant House, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon C...

Survey number: HABS GA-245-B Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 01000272

Railey-Hall, Shed, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Railey-Hall, Shed, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Ro...

Significance: This shed is associated with the Railey-Hall House which is part of a district which comprises the core of the rural crossroads community of Sumter in Sumter County. The district contains five com... More

Andersonville Prison Historic map, Library of Congress

Andersonville Prison Historic map, Library of Congress

Detailed plan of Andersonville Prison Camp, showing Sweetwater Lick to the north, and the Southwestern & Enfaula Railroad to the east. Shows the main forts, stockade and cemetery.

Forrester General Store, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Forrester General Store, Hudson & Main Streets, Plains, Sumter County,...

Significance: The buildings in this business block were erected between 1896-1916 as brick was used to gradually replace the original wood-frame structures. Situated southwest of the Plains Depot, this block wa... More

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site & Preservation District, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site & Preservation District, Plains, S...

Significance: The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site and preservation district includes more than twenty structures significant to the lives of the 39th president and his wife, Rosalynn, in their hometown of P... More

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

Plains School, Gymnasium, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plain...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-96 Survey number: HABS GA-2206-A Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction

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

Plains School, Gymnasium, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plain...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-96 Survey number: HABS GA-2206-A Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Examples of shotgun-style houses typical of rental property of the area ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2240 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

William Webb Farm, Shed, State Highway 3/U.S. highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

William Webb Farm, Shed, State Highway 3/U.S. highway 19, Sumter, Sumt...

Significance: The William Webb house is located on approximately eight hundred acres of farmland historically associated with two other farmhouses and the Webb family. This house is part of a National Register ... More

123 Heads Avenue (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

123 Heads Avenue (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of a cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2303 Building/structure dates: after 1900 Initial Construction

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower F...

Significance: This district consists of a historic farmhouse with its associated outbuildings and pecan groves. The structures are located on approximately 465 acres of farmland historically associated with th... More

Pond House, Fish Pond Road (near Old Plains Highway), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Pond House, Fish Pond Road (near Old Plains Highway), Plains, Sumter C...

Significance: Lillian Carter lived in this modern, shed-style house from 1968 until her death in 1983. Her children had the house built for her while she was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in India. Jimmy C... More

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

Plains School, Bond Street (opposite Paschal Street), Plains, Sumter C...

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... More

Drane's Rental House E, 117 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House E, 117 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Examples of shotgun-style houses typical of rental property of the area ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2241 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Drane's Rental House E, 117 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House E, 117 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Examples of shotgun-style houses typical of rental property of the area ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2241 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter Count...

Significance: Last remaining cottage in a neighborhood of vernacular housing forms ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2237 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House A, 413 North Jackson Street, Sumter, Sumter Count...

Significance: Last remaining cottage in a neighborhood of vernacular housing forms ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2237 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cemetery Road), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cemetery Road),...

Significance: This was Jimmy Carter's childhood home from age 3 until he left Plains to attend college. The farm included a bungalow, commissary (see HABS No. GA-245-A), tenant houses (see HABS No. GA-245-B), a... More

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumt...

Significance: The house is contributing resource to the Webb Family Farm National Register district which consists of three historic farmhouses with their associated outbuildings and one non-historic house. The... More

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

George Webb Farm, House, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Sumter, Sumt...

Significance: The house is contributing resource to the Webb Family Farm National Register district which consists of three historic farmhouses with their associated outbuildings and one non-historic house. The... More

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Commissary, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cemetery Road), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home, Commissary, Old Plains Highway (Lebanon Cem...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-90 Survey number: HABS GA-245-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 01000272

121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2284 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2284 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More

Matthew Edmund Rylander House, Old Plains Highway (near Highway 280), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Matthew Edmund Rylander House, Old Plains Highway (near Highway 280), ...

Significance: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter rented this large house on the outskirts of town from 1956-1961. Formerly owned by Burr Thaddeus Wise, of of the founders of the Wise Sanitarium, this antebellum home is ... More

Matthew Edmund Rylander House, Old Plains Highway (near Highway 280), Plains, Sumter County, GA

Matthew Edmund Rylander House, Old Plains Highway (near Highway 280), ...

Significance: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter rented this large house on the outskirts of town from 1956-1961. Formerly owned by Burr Thaddeus Wise, of of the founders of the Wise Sanitarium, this antebellum home is ... More

Oliver-French Company, Main Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Oliver-French Company, Main Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: The buildings in this business block were erected between 1896-1916 as brick was used to gradually replace the original wood-frame structure. Situated southwest of the Plains Depot, this block was... More

Carter Peanut Warehouse Complex, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Carter Peanut Warehouse Complex, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: When his father died in 1953, Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, returned to Plains to run the family peanut business. After making less that $200 profit during a difficult first year, they expa... More

Plains Methodist Church, Highway 280 across from Thomas Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Plains Methodist Church, Highway 280 across from Thomas Street, Plains...

Significance: Rosalynn Carter attended this church until she married Jimmy Carter here on July 7, 1946. The brick, Romanesque-inspired structure was expanded several times to meet the needs of the congregation.... More

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Five Points Road and Cornwell Road, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19, Lower Fi...

Significance: This farm consists of a historic farmhouse with its associated outbuildings and pecan groves. The structures are located on approximately 465 acres of farmland historically associated with the fa... More

Lunsford-French-Timmerman General Store, Main Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Lunsford-French-Timmerman General Store, Main Street, Plains, Sumter C...

Significance: The buildings in this business block were erected between 1896-1916 as brick was used to gradually replace the original wood-frame structure. Situated southwest of the Plains Depot, this block was... More

Jimmy Carter's bedroom at the boyhood farm of America's 39th president, in the little community of Archery, Georgia, now part of the only slightly larger town of Plains, with which President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, a Plains native, are usually associated

Jimmy Carter's bedroom at the boyhood farm of America's 39th president...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

413 Winn Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

413 Winn Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of a cottage-style house typical of residential houses in the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2283 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates... More

304 East Jefferson Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

304 East Jefferson Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Example of shotgun-type house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2285 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Drane's Rental House D, 115 Hudson Lane, Sumter, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Examples of shotgun-style houses typical of rental property of the area ca. 1912. Survey number: HABS GA-2240 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

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