Plains Peanut Festival

Name: Plains Peanut Festival
Start: 2026-09-26
End: 2026-09-26
Location: Downtown Plains, near Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

Plains, GA · Food & Drink

When: September 26, 2026
Where: Downtown Plains, near Jimmy Carter National Historical Park · Plains · GA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Plains Peanut Festival celebrates the peanut harvest in Jimmy Carter's hometown, with proceeds benefiting the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park. It has run since the late 1990s and includes a road race and craft vendors.

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Plains Peanut Festivalsame spot
The Plains Peanut Festival celebrates the peanut harvest in Jimmy Carter's hometown, with proceeds benefiting the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park.
Plains runs a campaign from a train depot0.2 mi
A peanut farmer from a town of about seven hundred people ran for president out of the disused railroad depot on the main street, with his mother holding court on the porch of the Best Western and reporters filing from a town with one traffic light.
Jimmy Carter0.2 mi
The first president born in a hospital, the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, where his mother Lillian worked as a nurse.
Koinonia Farm and what grew out of it13 mi
A Baptist preacher with a doctorate in Greek started a farm where black and white families worked and ate together, in Georgia, in 1942.
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