Travel Lens
Walk through the Georgia hometown of Jimmy Carter, from his boyhood farm to the school where he and Rosalynn graduated.
Step into the rural Georgia landscape that shaped a president, with preserved buildings tied to key moments in Carter’s life.
Visit the 1921 school where Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter earned their diplomas, now a museum and visitor center.
See the farm where young Jimmy grew up, restored to look the way it did in 1938.
Stop at the town’s oldest standing building, from 1888, for a self-guided museum about the 1976 presidential election.
Browse the old service station once owned by the president’s brother Billy, now a small museum full of local color.
Museums, military and aircraft exhibits, nature trails and an 18-hole golf course fill 1,308 acres about 35 miles away.
In Andersonville, 20 minutes from Plains, this museum tells the story of prisoners of war through military artifacts.
Nicknamed Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon, its colorful cliffs were carved by erosion of soft, multicolored soils.
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