- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Warm Springs
- Creator:
- Minchew, Kaye Lanning
- Date of Original:
- 2002-12-06
- Subject:
- Cities and towns--Georgia
Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.)
Presidents--Dwellings--Georgia--Warm Springs
Hot springs--Georgia - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the town of Warm Springs, Georgia. Between 1933 and 1945 the eyes of the nation often focused on Warm Springs, where U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a residence. After discovering in the fall of 1924 that the southern Meriwether County springs eased his polio symptoms, Roosevelt built a treatment center for polio victims there as well as a residence that later became known as the Little White House. He died at Warm Springs on April 12, 1945. Since then the Little White House has served as a memorial for the thirty-second president, and Warm Springs has returned to its pre-Roosevelt status as a quiet southern village.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/warm-springs/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Warm Springs," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
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Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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