In Plains, Jimmy Carter's Georgia home town, a Christmas tree tradition lives on. ... In 1989, Salter purchased the old Carter warehouse from the former president’s sister Gloria.

Drive into Plains, Georgia, from nearby Americus, and there is no doubt whose hometown you are entering. "Welcome to historic Plains Georgia, home of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter has always come home to Plains. After leaving the Navy in 1953, he returned to Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he was raised, and where he eventually started the ...

In his 1971 inaugural address as governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter famously said, "The time for racial discrimination is over." To their longtime neighbors in Plains, those were more than words.

PLAINS, Ga. — Although Plains, Georgia, has made its mark as the birthplace and home of Jimmy Carter, the boy who became president spent his formative years in a place even smaller.

FILE - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter pose for a photo during their wedding July 7, 1946, in Plains, Georgia. Jimmy and Rosalynn are celebrating their 77th wedding anniversary, Friday, July 7, 2023.

People line the street in Plains, Ga., before the hearse carrying the casket of former President Jimmy Carter passes through the town Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100 ...

Jimmy Carter put off his usual practice of watching Sunday services online to celebrate his 99th birthday with wife Rosalynn and other family in Plains, Ga. Oct. 1, 2023 ...

PLAINS, Ga.—Early Tuesday morning, Ron Hobkirk, Brennan Morris and Henry Smith ventured out of the woods behind the old Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home carrying what would soon be a Christmas tree. It ...

“During the dry season when we were cultivating crops and planting and cultivating and harvesting, we were extremely busy in the field, and daddy was a very good taskmaster,” Carter said ...

ATLANTA — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are marking their 77th wedding anniversary with a quiet Friday at their south Georgia home, extending their record as the longest-married first couple ever as ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Although Plains, Georgia, has made its mark as the birthplace and home of Jimmy Carter, the boy who became president spent his formative years in a place even smaller.