Babyland General Hospital

Cleveland, Georgia, United States

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BabyLand General Hospital, at 300 NOK Drive in Cleveland, Georgia, is the hospital-themed home of the Cabbage Patch Kids. According to a February 2026 Amazing America feature, thousands of the dolls are “born” there every year before being put up for adoption.

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Approximate location · 34.596° N, 83.763° W

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Cabbage Patch Kids are “born” in a hospital in a small Georgia mountain town.

BabyLand General Hospital stands in Cleveland, about 75 miles north-east of Atlanta, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia. The encyclopedia (article last edited 2013) calls it partly a doll museum and partly a gift shop, with staff in medical scrubs and a Magic Crystal Tree under which five dolls were said to be “born” every hour. Buyers are said to “adopt” rather than purchase.

The dolls began with Cleveland native Xavier Roberts, who according to the encyclopedia developed the concept in 1977 while studying Appalachian soft sculpture at Truett-McConnell College. A 2026 Amazing America feature gives 1976 for the first dolls, then called Little People. The encyclopedia says Roberts opened a store in a turn-of-the-century medical clinic near downtown in 1979.

The encyclopedia reports about 65 million Cabbage Patch Kids adopted by 1990 and a 1999 US postage stamp chosen by public vote. The Amazing America feature, published in February 2026, lists BabyLand at 300 NOK Drive and says thousands of dolls are born there each year.

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According to a February 2026 Amazing America feature, thousands of Cabbage Patch Kids are “born” at BabyLand each year. The New Georgia Encyclopedia (article last edited 2013) describes a doll museum and gift shop where staff wear medical scrubs and dolls are “adopted”.

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At 300 NOK Drive, Cleveland, Georgia, about 75 miles north-east of Atlanta in the Blue Ridge Mountains, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia and a February 2026 Amazing America feature.

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