📍Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm, Old Plains Highway, Archery, Plains, GA 31780, USA
1928 – 1941“From the age of four until I left for college in 1941, my home was our farm at Archery, a tiny community about three miles west of Plains in south-west Georgia. There was no running water, and no electricity until 1938, when an unbelievable change took place in our lives. Archery was home to some twenty-five Black families and just two white ones, and my playmates and closest friends were Black boys I worked the fields, hunted and fished with. Rachel Clark, the wife of one of our tenant farmers, was one of the great influences of my life; she took me fishing in the creeks and taught me about nature, faith and kindness. My father was a shrewd farmer and storekeeper; my mother, Lillian, a nurse who cared for Black and white neighbours alike and ignored the rules of segregation inside our home. I sold boiled peanuts on the streets of Plains when I was five. The farm, restored as it was in the 1930s, is now part of the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today