Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr

James Earl Carter Sr.

Julia Coleman

Rachel Idlette Holt Clark

Rosalynn Carter

This finding aid describes the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) Southest Region Collection, part of the NPS History Collection.

Turning 100 years old is enough of an achievement for most people. However, when Jimmy Carter passed the century mark on October 1, 2024, it was perhaps his final achievement in a long lifetime full of achievements. Not only was Jimmy Carter our 39th President of the United States, but specific to Alaska, he was also one of the greatest, but largely unacknowledged, conservation figures in history.

Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter talked about their relationship with Harry S and Bess W. Truman, including their personal feelings about the Trumans' performance in the White House and their visits to Independence.

Aside from the White House, there is only one other historic site in the National Park Service that is still an active presidential home. It is also the only national park site where you can regularly see a former US president and first lady walking down their hometown streets. We invite you to the rural, agricultural, southern community of Plains, Georgia, to see, first-hand, the long-time home of our 39th US president, Jimmy Carter, and first lady, Rosalynn Carter.

The Plains Train Depot, a cultural landscape at Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, is one of the most recognizable symbols of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. The Plains Depot proved a powerful symbol for the Carter campaign, as the building in the small town became well-known in a way that mirrored Carter's own rise. It was also the literal and figurative center of the Plains community, connected to a local history of race relations, agriculture, and politics.

President Jimmy Carter's remarks delivered at the White House on the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decisions in Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1979.

President Jimmy Carter oversaw one of the largest growths in the National Park System. Explore some of the parks that are part of the legacy of the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who served as the 39th president of the United States from January 20, 1977, to January 20, 1981.

Explore the changing role of the First Ladies through an examination of the lives of Frances Cleveland, Mamie Eisenhower and Rosalynn Carter.