Jimmy Carter died on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100, traveling as the 39th U.S. president worldwide, in his more prominent late-stage presidential period, as a fearless advocate for peace and human rights.
But he is still unusually rooted in rural areas Georgia Where he grew up. In fact, Carter “never really left” Plain Town, according to Washington PostThe itu prose. “Until the later stages of their lives, he and Mrs. Carter [Rosalynn, who died in 2023] At the home of a friend, I often see handshakes along Church Street on the way home from Saturday dinner.
PlainLocated about 150 miles south of Atlanta, it has become “essentially a living museum [Carter’s] Life, “The newspaper continues,” “the old-fashioned storefronts and shops sell everything from Carter Christmas decorations to campaign souvenirs.”
This is an essential stay for those seeking more knowledge or respect for the lives and legacy of peanut farmers.
((Jimmy Carter in 2008 | Credits: NIR LEVY/shutterstock)
Jimmy Carter site in Georgia Plains
National Park Service Jimmy Carter National Historical Park On the plains, several important places in the life of the Nobel Peace Prize winner are preserved.
Plain High School (300 N. Bond St.) In the 1940s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (Rosalynn graduated from Valedictorian), it is now a visitor center where you can see classrooms, auditoriums and the principal’s office as they look at the students here when Carters are here.
The south of the high school is the oldest building in the town: Plain Warehouse (Main St. 107), a former railway station that served as the headquarters of Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976. Today, the warehouse houses a museum that displays a focus on Carter’s political career. Photos, campaign souvenirs and other artifacts help tell the story of his campaign for state senator, Georgia governor and president.
((Plains Warehouse in Georgia Plains | Credits: Dennis MacDonald/Shutterstock)
Driving west from the city center, you’ll come to Carter Childhood home and farm (402 Old Plains Expressway), where he lived from the age of 4 to college. Prior to the installation of electricity in 1938, the farm was restored in a modest three-bedroom house, barn and garden in Carters. In the process, information exhibitions from various places are linked to the history of the location. On the audio station, you can hear Jimmy Carter share his childhood story.
((Jimmy Carter Childhood Farm in Georgia Plains | Credit: National Park Service)
The crops are still grown on the farm, yes, which include peanuts. Among the resident animals: goats, chickens, mules and bees.
((Park Rangers brush Ule children at Jimmy Carter Childhood Farm in Georgia Plains | Credits: National Park Service/Laura Kuyat)
The National Park Service has You can follow the map To conduct self-guided driving on many other places related to Carter on the plains, including Baptist Church and Rosalyn attending, the gas station once owned by the president’s younger brother Billy, and the somewhat disturbing statue of smiling peanuts on Buena Vista Road.
Also within the scope of the National Historic Park: The President’s Funeralnext to Rosalin. The two have been married for a total of 77 years.
There is no need to visit Jimmy Carter National Historic Park for admission or pass. For more information, go to nps.gov/jica.
((L – R: The statue of Jimmy Carter is located on the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta and Buena Vista Road in the Plains of Georgia Credit: Shutterstock)
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museums in Atlanta
In his 2020 book His best: Jimmy Carter, LifeJonathan Alter Describe his subject As “the most misunderstood president in American history.” In this reassessment, high inflation and the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis doomed Carter as a government unfairly covering up achievements related to the environment, the Middle East peace negotiations and other areas.
If Carter’s presidency needs to be better understood, his presidential library is Atlanta (lie in Freedom Park) seems to be a good starting point.
((Replica of the Oval Office of Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and the Atlanta Museum | Photo source: Michael Gordon/Shutterstock)
The exhibition features a full-size replica of the Oval Office from the late 1970s, a circular circular building with a circular hall designed to showcase a day in the president’s life, and a drill at the pivotal 1978 Camp David in 1978, which led to Egypt, Egypt and Peaceful Treatment.
((Jimmy Carter worked on UN-Habitat Project in 1992 | Photo source: Rob Crandall / Shutterstock)
The center also explores the extraordinary humanitarian work Carters has done over the past 40 years since he left the White House, from human habitats that pick up hammers and painting brushes to surveillance elections in fledgling democracy. A huge interactive map of the museum shows how far Carters stretches.
Nonprofit organizations Carter Centerheadquartered in a building near the library and museum, is committed to continuing its efforts to the same name.
Whether you might think of President Carter’s position, it’s hard to argue with the assessment Provided by Gunnar Berge, Chairman of the Nobel Committee At the ceremony to receive the Carter Nobel Peace Prize in 2002: “He is certainly the best former president of the country ever.”
Tickets to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum are $12 for adults; $10 for seniors aged 62 and older, military members and college students with IDS; free for children 16 and younger. You can purchase tickets in person or online. For more information, go to jimmycarterlibrary.gov.