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." M
What awaits
Legend. The state marker at this site records the story as local legend rather than established fact; the wording below is the marker’s own.
Sources: Georgia Historical Society — Georgia Historical Marker Program.
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