Cabbage Patch Kids Babyland Hospital - born in Cleveland, Georgia Ever wonder where the world-famous Cabbage Patch Kids are, ah…born? Well yes, they are born in a cabbage patch and those cabbage patches are located at
Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia.
Cleveland Georgia and the birthing place of the Cabbage Patch Kids is located about 40 minutes south of Helen on Highway 75. The kids are the creation
of Xavier Roberts. When Roberts was 21, he was an art student at McConnell College in Georgia. He originally hand-stitched each kid and started to sell
them at fairs. At first, the kids weren’t too popular, but with the advent of an accompanying birth certificate, Roberts’ business was born! The kids
have been a huge success for over 26-years and continue to win the hearts of children everywhere; just try to get your child to leave Babyland.
The Cabbage Patch Kids Babyland General Hospital has Disneyesk design qualities that are quite visually appealing and fun to explore. Visitors can watch the birth of a Cabbage Patch newborn or preemie under the Crystal Tree where Mother Cabbages deliver and then wander through the unusual but captivating hospital. Visit the schoolroom where multitudes of Cabbage Patch Kids of every ethnicity, hair and eye color are on display, or stroll to the Adoption Center and adopt a Cabbage Patch Kid of your own. Babyland is an impressive kids’ paradise and features an interesting history, as well as information on the Collector’s Club. Moreover, Babyland is moving to a larger home in the fall of 2009, located two miles north of the existing Babyland in Cleveland. If you think the original Babyland is special, prepare to be WOWED! The New Babyland General is a spectacularly architected southern-style home with 70,000 square feet of space on 96 acres. Parents will have the opportunity to book parties for their children at the new Babyland amid a whole host of other surprises that will make Babyland General a fun and exciting destination for children everywhere. For additional information, visit CabbagePatchKids.com Patrice Raplee is an experienced travel photojournalist and editor of Travel Excursion and Seattle Spotlight for Positively Entertainment
magazine. In addition, she writes a monthly travel column for the award-wining site Offbeat Travel. She is a member of North American Travel Journalists
Association (NATJA), International Travel Writers Alliance (ITWA) and the Recording Academy. Her photographs and articles have appeared in numerous
international publications, as well as NW newspapers such as the Seattle Times, the Stranger, Seattle Weekly and the Oregonian. As a freelance
photojournalist, she has also worked with acclaimed musical entertainers, such as Santana, Billy Joel and Steven Tyler. Patrice travels the globe to
cover destinations that feature fascinating culture, art, culinary, history and soft adventure.
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