From 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, later the author of "Uncle Remus," lived and worked at Turnwold Plantation 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. Turner, a planter, lawyer, scholar, and writer, encouraged the young Harris in writing and in the use of the plantation's large library. In the slave quarters, Harris heard African animal legends and the Negro folklore of the old South that he later immortalized in his "Uncle Remus" stories.