Turnwold Plantation
Inscription
TURNWOLD PLANTATION. Here, from 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus," lived and worked as a printer's apprentice on what was probably the only newspaper ever printed on a Southern plantation, "The Countryman," a weekly newspaper edited and published by Joseph Addison Turner, owner of "Turnwold.
" Mr. Turner, planter, lawyer, scholar and writer, encouraged his youthful apprentice in writing and the use of the large plantation library. In the slave quarters, the boy Harris heard African animal legends and the true Negro folklore of the old South, which he immortalized in his "Uncle Remus" stories.
117-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955
Location
Sources
More markers in Putnam
The Baptist Church of Christ at Ramoth
Eatonton, GA
THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST AT RAMOTH.
Blue Star Memorial historical marker (Putnam County)
Eatonton, GA
BLUE STAR MEMORIAL. A tribute to the Armed Forces that have defended the United States of America.
The Bronson House
Madison Ave. and Harris St., Eatonton text of marker: "THE BRONSON HOUSE.
Concord Methodist Church
CONCORD METHODIST CHURCH.
George Claud Adams
GEORGE CLAUD ADAMS. G.C. Adams, leading educator in Georgia, was born in Newton County in 1868.