Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Plains, GA

Plains is a small city in Sumter County, Georgia, whose official motto is 'Home of the 39th President.'

Plains is world-famous as the home and final resting place of Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), and his wife Rosalynn, both of whom grew up in Plains.

The town traces its roots to three settlements of the 1840s — Plains of Dura, Magnolia Springs and Lebanon — and took shape at its present site in the 1880s when the Seaboard Railroad built a depot there; Plains was incorporated in 1896.

Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and former Georgia state senator, became Georgia's governor in 1971 and then won the presidency in 1976 as a dark-horse candidate, defeating incumbent President Gerald Ford.

During Carter's 1976 presidential campaign and for years afterward, Plains saw an enormous influx of visitors, with nearly 10,000 people a day — around eighteen times the town's population — pouring into the community.

The Jimmy Carter National Historical Park preserves the town's Carter sites, including Plains High School, which now serves as the park's museum and visitor center, and the 1888 Plains Depot, which served as Carter's 1976 campaign headquarters.

Other Carter landmarks clustered in town include Billy Carter's service station, the former Carter family peanut business sites, and the Carter boyhood home and farm in the nearby community of Archery.

In the 1920s Plains built a substantial school and the pioneering Wise Sanitarium, one of the notable early hospitals in rural southwest Georgia.

Peanuts have long been central to Plains' economy — the Carter family's warehouse business handled the region's crop, in one of Georgia's most lucrative farming regions.

The 2020 census counted 573 residents in Plains, down from 776 in 2010, while the 2000 census recorded 637 people in 215 households.