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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ZF_trinity-united-methodist-church_Warm-Springs-GA.html
In 1854, Harmony Church near the Ogletree cemetery, Liberty Church close by the old Campbell place, and Providence Church from the Strickland neighborhood, all came together, after twenty-two years of sharing camp meeting worship, to form Trinity …
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(Marker #1) Beginning as the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, this hospital for polio patients was founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927. The Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation is today an internationally recognized com…
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Died in this house on April 12 1945No soldier gave more on any battlefield than he who here gave his life for his country no greater martyr ever served the cause of freedom This tablet erected June 25 1947 by the Presidential Electors who in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSRZ_warm-springs-treatment-pools_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Georgia's largest and most famous warm spring delivers 914 gallons of 88?F per minute to a catch basin beneath the buildings at the base of the hill in front of you. The springs have been used for recreation and healing for centuries. Franklin D. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSQW_the-little-white-house_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Warm Springs in 1924 in hopes of recovering from the effects of polio. His love for the area and hopes for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation led him to build a small white clapboard cottage on these pine scented slo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF9D_old-depot-site-warm-springs_Warm-Springs-GA.html
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, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEP1_roosevelt-farm_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Over 2200 acres atop Pine Mountain were purchased 1926-37, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, some 150 acres of which were pasture and crop land — the rest in pine and hardwoods. The farm was operated on a self-sustaining basis by adherence to me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEND_longleaf-pine-planting_Warm-Springs-GA.html
In the early years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's sojourn in Meriwether County, he observed that no great effort was made to replace trees on cut-over or burnt areas not suitable for agriculture.As a demonstration of replacement, together with erosion…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME55_georgia-warm-springs-foundation_Warm-Springs-GA.html
These gates mark the original entrance to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, established in July 1927 by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor for the treatment of polio victims. Roosevelt himself suffered from polio beginning in 1921. Learni…
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