- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Turnwold Plantation historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Putnam County
Plantations--Georgia--Putnam County
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
Turner, J. A. (Joseph Addison), 1826-1868 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Putnam County, Eatonton, 33.3268, -83.3885
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Old Phoenix Rd. between Ga. 44 and Ga. 16 N.E. of Eatonton
Text of marker: "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" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_turnwold-plantation
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_turnwold-plantation
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
