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Photo Gallery: Uncle Remus Museum and Town Well Shelter
Uncle
Remus Museum marker text:
This memorial to Joel Chandler Harris, born in Eatonton Dec.
9, 1848, was constructed from three slave cabins found in Putnam County.
Uncle Remus Museum, Inc., a local non-profit organization of dedicated
citizens established and has maintained its operation continuously from the
opening on April 21, 1963.
Turner Park is a part of the home place of Joseph Sidney Turner, the "little
boy" to whom the world famous stories of the "critters" were told by "Uncle
Remus", Harris' unique creation. Turner grew up at "Turnwold", nine miles
east of Eatonton, home of his father, Joseph Addison Turner, where Harris
had his first job assisting in printing The Countryman.
Erected 1977 by Uncle Remus Museum, Inc.
The Town Well Shelter marker text:
This well shelter was probably built in 1839 when James
Wright fulfilled his contract to dig a new well and build a well shelter on
the public square for one hundred and fifty dollars. In 1902 a public
drinking fountain was installed on the public square and the well was filled
in. At that time the well shelter was removed from the public square and at
the request of Hampton C. Walker the well shelter was placed over the well
located on the property line between "the old Adam Hafner House" and "the
old Dan O'Sullivan House," the "middle of the well" having been the property
line between the two lots since 1817. Years later W. Wingfield Walker,
through inheritance from his father Hampton C. Walker, owned both lots and
sold them. The well, a landmark of long standing, was filled in when the
present Radio Station was constructed in 1962. The well shelter, having
sustained only minor alterations and repairs over the years, was removed at
the request of W. Wingfield Walker to Turner Park.
Marker erected April 1985 by the Uncle Remus Museum, Inc.
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