Joel Chandler Harris Home

This country retreat on Snap Bean Farm was once the home of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus Tales. Harris was also a prominent journalist and editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. Influential black songwriter, author and statesman, ...

Joel Chandler Harris

Eatonton, Georgia

December 9, 1848

Atlanta Georgia

July 3, 1908

Creator of

"Uncle Remus"

Marker is on Old Airport Road (North Carolina Route 1547) east of Henderson Road (U.S. 25), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Joel Chandler Harris in Savannah 1870-1876

Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908), New South journalist and author of Uncle Remus tales,

Free Joe, and many other works, was associate editor of the Savannah Morning News

from 1870 until 1876, under William Tappan Thompson, an established writer of southern ...