- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Old Depot Site Warm Springs historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Meriwether County
- People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Old depot at junction of U.S. 27 and Ga. 85W in Warm Springs
Text of marker: "OLD DEPOT SITE WARM SPRINGS. Here stood the little depot of the Southern R. R. where Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived &; departed on his many visits to Warm Springs during the years 1924-1945. A personal interest in the after treatment of infantile paralysis led him, in 1924, to the thermal springs at Pine Mtn., the helpful aid of which inspired him to establish the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation to combat infantile paralysis on a national level. During his presidency of the United States, his Georgia home was the Little White House where he departed this life, April 12, 1945. 099-4 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_old-depot-site-warm-springs
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_old-depot-site-warm-springs
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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