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Also known as: Home of Jimmy Carter
Situated in Sumter County amid the vast agricultural plains of southwestern Georgia, Plains is a historic rural town known globally as the birthplace and lifelong home of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States. Incorporated in 1896 along the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway, the community developed as a wealthy commercial center for peanut farming, cotton, and seed processing. The town's historic storefronts and train depot became the backdrop for international media during Carter's historic 1976 presidential campaign. Today, the entire community functions as a living history exhibit, tightly preserved under the National Park Service to reflect a mid-20th-century Southern farming town while maintaining an active agricultural economy.
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Suggested stay: 1 day
Tour President Jimmy Carter’s childhood farm and his former high school turned museum. Visit the historic 1976 Presidential Campaign Headquarters located at the old Plains Train Depot. Buy authentic, locally made peanut butter ice cream downtown.
