The roadside stories worth pulling over for.
On Joseph Addison Turner's plantation, teenaged printer's apprentice Joel Chandler Harris set type for Turner's newspaper, 'The Countryman,' and absorbed the African folk tales told by enslaved storytellers, the source he later drew on for Uncle Remus.
Turnwold Plantation is a historical marker in Eatonton, Putnam County, erected in 1955. It is one of 21 historical markers documented in Putnam County, among 34 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.3800, -83.2765 near Eatonton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Gatewood House (historic place), about 1.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Hillsborough, Mrs. Beall's Mill, and Woodland.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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