Old Carter Peanut Warehouse

Built in 1903, and intended as an hotel, the building housed retail services on the ground floor and the twenty-bed wise sanitarium on the top floor. The Wise Brothers used this location until the 1920's when they moved to the ...

Jimmy Carter's Boyhood Farm

From Here to Plains

Just down this path is the shady, swept-sand yard where the 39th President of the United States played as a boy, during the years of the Great Depression. This plain white farmhouse, these tangled woods, and these ...

Jimmy Carter Slept Here

Our lives then were centered almost completely around our own family and our own home...

Jimmy Carter, 1975, Why Not the Best?

This is the homeplace- "hot in the summer and cold in the winter"- of a Georgia farmboy who would someday ...

The Earl and Lillian Carter Home

James Earl Carter, Sr. and his family moved into this middle-class rural dwelling as its second owners in 1928, six years after the home had been built. Heating was accomplished by fireplaces and wood stoves.

Initially, there was no running water ...

The Carter Family Garden

Earl Carter always had a garden to add variety to the family's meals. A community sweet potato garden was also planted and shared among the residents who lived nearby. This garden was strictly for the Carter family's use although the ...

Governor Martin H. Glynn Village Square

Dedicated Sept. 1994 by Mayor Patrick M. Grattan

On this site stood the

Valatie Union School.

ca. 1876 – 1929.

Gov. Martin H. Glynn,

as well as the many who served &

died in both World Wars, attended

here. Governor ...

Martin Abstract Company

By the early 20th century the ranching industry that spurred the growth of Atascosa County had begun to wane, with many large ranches split into smaller ranches, farms and town lots. George M. Martin realized the importance of a company ...

Site of Jose Antonio Navarro Ranch Headquarters

(2.3 Mi. SSE)

This land had once been allocated in the 1700s as a ranch for Mission San Jose in San Antonio (20 mi. N), but in the 1820s was left unsettled. In 1828 prominent San Antonio resident Jose Antonio Navarro ...

The Hogarth Family

The Hogarth Family has had a long involvement with the mining industry in Angels Camp. Patriarch Henry ("Harry") Hogarth, Sr. was born in Scotland in 1831. He immigrated to the United States at an early age and soon settled on ...

The Hogarth Stamp Mill

Common in California after 1853, the stamp mill consisted from one to five heavy pillar-like stamps whose bottom, (or shoes), were cylindrical hammers made of iron, each weighing as much as one thousand pounds. Power to operate the stamps was ...