petitioned the Georgia State Legislature to shorten "Plains of Dura" to simply "Plains". The city was subsequently incorporated in 1896. Plains continued to...

incorporated White Plains in 1834. According to tradition, White Plains was so named on account of the local white sandy soil. White Plains is located in southeastern...

Dictionary.” She was raised in Plains until her father was elected governor of Georgia in 1970 and her family moved into the Georgia Governor's Mansion in Atlanta...

Instead, she worked for the US Post Office at Richland before moving to Plains, Georgia in 1920 where she was accepted as a trainee at the Wise Sanitarium...

Billy Beer and Peanut Lolita; and he was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia. William Alton "Billy" Carter was the fourth and youngest child of...

which the nine-year-old James witnessed — the Carter family moved to Plains, Georgia. The relocation allowed a supportive uncle to provide guidance to James...

Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, graduated as valedictorian of Plains High School, and soon after attended Georgia Southwestern College, where...

four days before his parents’ first wedding anniversary. Raised in Plains, Georgia, he spent winters working at his father's peanut farm warehouse, where...

Heaven." Spann is buried in the Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery near Plains, Georgia, where her parents and brother are also buried. "No Place Like Home...

politician and businessman from Georgia. He was also the first cousin of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. Born in Plains, Georgia, Carter served in World War...