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Photo Gallery: Turnwold Plantation
Marker text:
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." Mr. Turner, planter, lawyer, scholar and
writer, encouraged his youthful apprentice in writing and the use of the
large plantation library. In the slave quarters, the boy Harris heard
African animal legends and the true Negro folklore of the old South, which
he immortalized in his "Uncle Remus" stories.
117-4 Georgia Historical Commission 1955 |
