Plains
Home town of former President Jimmy Carter
Plains (Georgia), city, Sumter County,
southwestern Georgia; incorporated as a city 1975. Known as the home of former
President Jimmy Carter, the city is a commercial and processing center for a
farm region in which peanuts, soybeans, corn, and peaches are grown. The
community, founded nearby in 1840 as The Plains of Dura (after the biblical
region), was moved to its present location in the 1870s to meet the railroad.
Population 651 (1980); 716 (1990); 680 (1998 estimate).
Text from Microsoft Encarta
train station
(also President Carter's Campaign headquarters)
brother Billy's Gas Station
school attended by President Carter as a youth
his classroom
early home of Jimmy and Roselyn Carter
church attended by the Carters
his present church in Plains, Georgia
(where he teaches the Sunday School lesson to the adults)
