Plains High School was constructed in 1921 at a cost of $50,000.00. Student attended grades one through eleven in the building, there being no twelfth grade until 1952. Both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter graduated from Plains High School, Jimmy Carter in 1941 and Rosalynn Carter in 1944. Jimmy Carter quoted Julia Coleman: teacher, principal, and superintendent of the school system, in his inaugural address as President of the United States.
Plains Depot-1976 Presidential Campaign Headquarters is the location of Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign. Now a self-guided museum of all of Jimmy Carter's campaigns for public office.
Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home is where President Carter was raised from the age of four until he went to college at age seventeen. The Carter family owned this house until 1949, when Earl Carter sold it. The National Park Service received the home in 1994, and after a multiyear restoration to its 1937 appearance, opened the home to visitation in November of 2000.
The Burial Site of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at Jimmy Carter National Historical Park is a place of reflection and remembrance, honoring the legacy of the 39th President of the United States and the former First Lady.
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 Dura Apartments, one of six Federal Housing Projects built by the Americus Housing Authority in 1953 in Plains and the nearby towns of Leslie and Andersonville.
(229) 824 - 4104
The visitor information desk is staffed from 10 am until 5 pm Eastern Time daily, except for New Year's Day (January 1), Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day (December 25).
