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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis), sometimes referred to as the "Mexican cotton boll weevil" [3] was indigenous to Mexico, but appeared in Alabama in 1915. By 1918 farmers were losing whole crops of cotton. H. M. Sessions saw this as an opportunity to convert the area to peanut farming. In 1916 he convinced C. W. Baston, an indebted farmer ...
Facing economic ruin, the nearly bankrupt area farmers were forced to diversify, planting peanuts and other crops in an effort to lessen the damage and recoup some of their losses. [6] Downtown Enterprise's former Alabama Midland Railway depot, now the Depot Museum. Two years later, Coffee County was the United States' leading producer of peanuts.
More than 80 farms in the U.S. and Canada have teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create “Peanuts”-themed mazes to celebrate the beloved strip's 75th birthday this summer and fall. “All of ...
Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, grew up on a peanut farm in Archery, Georgia.. He helped harvest and sell cotton, peanuts, sugar cane, and corn before he left for college. The Carter ...
Born in Red Level, Covington County, Alabama, Foshee owned a cotton and peanut farm in Red Level. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1966 to 1970 and was a Democrat. Foshee then served in the Alabama Senate and retired in 1994. After he retired, Foshee was a consultant in government relations. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Carter grew up on his family's 360-acre peanut farm in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman, while his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter ...
Born in Plains, Georgia, Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the submarine service before returning home to tend to the family peanut farm. He was active in the civil rights movement, then served as state senator and governor before running for president in 1976.