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Billy Carter's gas-station: Historic site

by Mark Silva

Fill 'er up, with Blly Beer.

There's been a certain climate change since Jimmy Carter came to Washington as president, leaving behind a younger brother Billy and a dispensary of hometown wisdom at his gas station in Plains, Ga. But it will cost more than peanuts to preserve the place.

Bllly Carter is gone, but his gas station lives on. And now the old station is poised to join a federal protectorate of historic landmarks.

The House today is weighing plans to roughly double the size of a National Park Service site honoring President Carter, in part by making the Billy Carter Service Station Museum an extension of the presidential historic site in Plains.

As Congressional Quarterly explains it, the plan will add about 30 acres to the current Carter presidential site, at a cost of $17 million over five years. That includes about $10 million for land-buying.

The gas station served as an informal headquarters for the national press during the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns. Billy Carter died of pancreatic cancer in 1988 at the age of 51. Jimmy Carter's current home, set back from the road with gates and woods, and his modest childhood home near a roadway, already are already part of the site.

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