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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DXI_m-and-m-cash-store_Plains-GA.html
Building was erected in 1902 by Everett Lunsford, Jon E. French and Edwin Timmerman and was named the General Store. In 1909, the building was sold to Alton Carter and renamed Plains Mercantile Company.
In 1934, Mr. Carter sold the building to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DXH_billy-carter-service-station_Plains-GA.html
In 1954 Mill Jennings, owner and operator of Standard Oil station purchased this building from Thad Jones and moved the building to its current site. The Plains Hotel, which had recently been torn down, previously occupied the lot. Originally, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12HB_baby-row_Plains-GA.html
Miss Julia Coleman, the Plains High School superintendent, inaugurated Baby Row in the late 1930's. A special section of the school's Friendship Garden, Baby Row horned the "Little citizens of Plains."
Mothers with their new babies in arms cam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12HA_friendship-garden_Plains-GA.html
In May 1936, the Tri-County news of Americus, Georgia, reported, "Miss Julia Coleman {superintendent of the Plains High School} has directed a program for the beautification of the {school} campus this spring, and many shrubs and flowers have been…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12H9_old-carter-peanut-warehouse_Plains-GA.html
Built in 1903, and intended as an hotel, the building housed retail services on the ground floor and the twenty-bed wise sanitarium on the top floor. The Wise Brothers used this location until the 1920's when they moved to the newly completed hosp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12H7_early-days_Plains-GA.html
The town of Plains was founded in 1885. Milton Leander Hudson donated land for the town, including land for a depot for the new railroad line. The train depot is the oldest building in Plains, built 1888.
Originally Creek Indians inhabited this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12H3_plains-depot_Plains-GA.html
The train depot served as the Presidential Campaign Headquarters for Jimmy Carter in 1976. The depot became nationally recognized and served as the backdrop for many political speeches. In January 1977, an 18-car "Peanut Special" train departed fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12GR_jimmy-carters-boyhood-farm_Plains-GA.html
Just down this path is the shady, swept-sand yard where the 39th President of the United States played as a boy, during the years of the Great Depression. This plain white farmhouse, these tangled woods, and these broad fields were home to Jimmy C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12GQ_always-a-reckoning_Plains-GA.html
I had a pony then that lacked a way to work and pay her way, except that every year or two Lady had a colt we sold, but still for less than what was due to buy the fodder, hay and corn she ate at times she couldn't be on pasture.
Neither feed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12GP_jimmy-carter-slept-here_Plains-GA.html
Our lives then were centered almost completely around our own family and our own home...Jimmy Carter, 1975, Why Not the Best?
This is the homeplace- "hot in the summer and cold in the winter"- of a Georgia farmboy who would someday sleep in the…