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
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
Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Plains Baptist Church, Bond & Paschal Streets, Plains, Sumter County, ...
Significance: Jimmy Carter was baptized in this carpenter Gothic-style church when he was 9, and remembers it as a focus of his life in Plains. When he and Rosalynn returned to Plains, in 1953, he continued to ... More
Plains Baptist Church, Bond & Paschal Streets, Plains, Sumter County, ...
Significance: Jimmy Carter was baptized in this carpenter Gothic-style church when he was 9, and remembers it as a focus of his life in Plains. When he and Rosalynn returned to Plains, in 1953, he continued to ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Oliver-McDonald 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
Borough House School Road (Cabin), Stateburg, Sumter County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-244 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001224
Barn in Sumter County, Georgia, festooned with the owner's collection ...
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
Interior of the blacksmith shop at the boyhood farm of America's 39th ...
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
Several times each year former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discusses t...
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
John H. Sherard House, State Road 28, Livingston, Sumter County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-283 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John H. Sherard House, State Road 28, Livingston, Sumter County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-283 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lakewood, U.S. Highway 11 (Washington Street), Livingston, Sumter Coun...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lakewood, U.S. Highway 11 (Washington Street), Livingston, Sumter Coun...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 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
Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, Tenant House B, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19...
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
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
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), 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), 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), Plain...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-96 Survey number: HABS GA-2206-A Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction
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.
High Hills Baptist Church, Kings Highway (State Route 261), Stateburg,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS SC-13-5 Building/structure dates: after 1780 Initial Construction
High Hills Baptist Church, Kings Highway (State Route 261), Stateburg,...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS SC-13-5 Building/structure dates: after 1780 Initial Construction
Milford, Wedgefield-Rimini Road, Pinewood, Sumter County, SC
Significance: "Milford," the residence of Governor John L. Manning, is one of the finest country mansions in South Carolina. Survey number: HABS SC-257 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction ... More
Tutwiler Bridge, Spanning Tombigbee River on Alabama State Highway 9, ...
Survey number: HAER AL-207 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, Tenant House A, State Highway 3-U.S. Highway 19...
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
Rodgers-Buchanan Farm, Tenant House A, State Highway 3-U.S. Highway 19...
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
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
W. G. Little House, West Main & Spring Streets, Livingston, Sumter Cou...
Survey number: HABS AL-262 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Borough House, Dry Well Shelter, State Route 261 & Garners Ferry Road,...
Significance: The Dry Well Shelter (or "Dry Well") is a dependency of the Borough House plantation complex. It was originally used as a natural refrigerator, the cool temperature at the bottom (about 55 degrees... More
Lee Haven, County Road 21, Livingston, Sumter County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-290 Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction
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 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
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
Oak Manor, State Road 28, Livingston, Sumter County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-257 Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Construction
Borough House, Dependency, State Route 261 & Garners Ferry Road, State...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N225 Survey number: HABS SC-363 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001224
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
Harris-Ennis-White House, West Main Street, Livingston, Sumter County,...
Survey number: HABS AL-264 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Harris-Ennis-White House, West Main Street, Livingston, Sumter County,...
Survey number: HABS AL-264 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
Drane's Rental House B, 109 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-2238 Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction
Pleasant Ridge, 100 West Main Street, Livingston, Sumter County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-263 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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 ...
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
Sumter Merchantile, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross R...
Significance: Sumter Merchantile is part of the rural crossroads community of Sumter in Sumter County. Sumter Merchantile is a significant example of a rural store that served the needs of the farming families... More
Plains Baptist Church, Bond & Paschal Streets, Plains, Sumter County, ...
Significance: Jimmy Carter was baptized in this carpenter Gothic-style church when he was 9, and remembers it as a focus of his life in Plains. When he and Rosalynn returned to Plains, in 1953, he continued to ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Church of the Holy Cross, State Route 261, Stateburg, Sumter County, S...
Significance: The Church of the Holy Cross is an extremely unusual mid-19th century rammed earth structure. Built in a simple but highly refined Gothic Revival style, it was designed on the model of an English ... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Borough House, West Side State Route 261, about .1 mile south side of ...
Significance: The Borough House is a late 18th and early 19th century plantation house with numerous surviving dependencies and extensive gardens. Major structures in the complex were designed and built in a mo... More
Ramsey House, Wedgefield, Sumter County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-238 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Railey-Hall, Barn, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Ro...
Significance: This barn 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
Bathroom at the boyhood farm of Jimmy Carter, 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
Filling Station, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Road...
Significance: The Filling Station is part of the rural crossroads community of Sumter in Sumter County. The community contains five commercial buildings, all of which are significant examples of common building... More
John H. Sherard House, State Road 28, Livingston, Sumter County, AL
Survey number: HABS AL-283 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lakewood, U.S. Highway 11 (Washington Street), Livingston, Sumter Coun...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Borough House, Kitchen-Storehouse, State Route 261 & Garners Ferry Roa...
Significance: The Kitchen-Storehouse, or Summer Kitchen, is a dependency of the Borough House plantation complex. Originally built of rammed earth in 1821, it is one of six dependencies (in addition to portions... More
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
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), Plain...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-96 Survey number: HABS GA-2206-A Building/structure dates: 1950 Initial Construction
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
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
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
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