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By Donald D. Daniel, June 15, 2006
Turnwold Plantation Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Old Phoenix Road north of Sparta Highway (Georgia Route 16), on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m25355) HM |
| On West Main Street (U.S. 41) at South Jackson Street, on the left when traveling east on West Main Street. |
| | One block east stood the old office of The Monroe Advertiser, where Joel Chandler Harris, creator of “Uncle Remus,” came in 1867, as a boy of nineteen, to work until 1870. Here he advanced from printer’s devil to accomplished . . . — — Map (db m25354) HM |
| On W. Bay Street near Whitaker St., on the right when traveling west. |
| | Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908), New South journalist and author of Uncle Remus tales,
Free Joe, and many other works, was associate editor of the Savannah Morning News
from 1870 until 1876, under William Tappan Thompson, an . . . — — Map (db m25357) HM |
| On U.S. 441 at South Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 441. |
| | This memorial to Joel Chandler Harris, born in Eatonton Dec. 9, 1848, was constructed from three slave cabins found in Putnam County. Uncle Remus Museum, Inc., a local non-profit organization of dedicated citizens established and has maintained its . . . — — Map (db m186625) HM |
Apr. 29, 2024