The family farm where President Jimmy Carter tended peanuts, corn and sugarcane as a boy and later returned throughout his life will be preserved and opened to the public.
Preservation group The Conservation Fund said Monday that it has acquired the farm as part of a 2,458-acre (995-hectare) purchase. The farm is just outside Plains, Georgia, the 39th president’s hometown. Carter spent his youth exploring the woods around the farm and returned many times as an adult to walk with his wife Rosalynn and hunt, the fund said.
Near the end of his life, Carter, who died in 2024 at 100, returned to the farm for one final fishing trip to its pond. Rosalynn Carter died in 2023.
“For our family, this land was always about more than a farm. It was home — a place my grandparents treasured. We’re grateful to The Conservation Fund and to everyone working to make sure it’s protected for generations to come,” Jason Carter, a grandson of the Carters, said in a statement.
The farm should be open to the public for hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation as soon as next year, The Conservation Fund said. The fund said it plans to transfer the land to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources the following year. The purchase price was $8.5 million, The Washington Post reported.
You mean the one he had to give up so people wouldn’t think he was profiting from being President?
We are living in the dumbest timeline, and modern Americans are the dumbest people the world has ever experienced.
Democracy ended when the lowest participant doesn’t engage with it.
No one felt alarmed when we spent more hours working than we did participating in governance as democracy demanded. Even under representation, that doesn’t excuse the public from any controversy or liability.
Will it also be renamed the Donald J Trump family farm or is this one safe?
I’ll be shocked if donnie doesn’t try to claim federal right to sell mining permits or something out of spite.
Data center pricks: Nice farm you got there, perfect location for a new data center
Data centres aren’t generally using compulsory purchase to get their land
His Presidential library is the only one I have ever visited or would I want to visit. I’m a life time Republican, I saw he transcended that.
He wanted a better world and he was in a bad spot when Iran when sideways and the embassy fell. His other policies imo were for the greater good.
How many Presidents in US history literally built affordable housing until they were 90? Carter was proof America does not value sincerity or integrity.
It was really bad timing for Carter as he was a truly nice guy and bad players on all sides took advantage of that.
The failure that is America is that they didn’t champion more men like that and instead chose to double down in misery.
He is one of few people who were fucked over by Republicans harder than Biden after Trump and whatever sorry mofo ends up being president next during the great collapse
How is it? I’ve been to the Truman one and the Clinton one. It’s interesting to see how they chose to display/address the insanity of the bombing of Hiroshima and the whole impeachment/Monica Lewinsky deal.
If your in Atlanta its worth it, also there is a great walking path in that area thats really nice unless its August. Then it s a form of torture.
That’s lovely
If the proceeds from it don’t go toward the people of East Timor, then they should just sell it, cuz it’s just another plantation glorified by bloodshed that lacks enslavement history which is the only reason that plantations should be preserved. He didn’t build anything here in America, unlike enslaved Americans did, and despite being not the worst president, he was still a genocider.
We almost had a positive thread, thank you for your reminder everyone is evil and everything is bad!
I want a public peanut park! A national peanut farm making the butter of the people!!!
