USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Franklin Delano Roosevelt first visited Warm Springs in October 1924. He went to a resort in the town whose attraction was a permanent 88-degree natural spring, but whose main house, the Meriwether Inn, was described as “ramshackle".

Detailed explanation-2: -On October 3, 1924 Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia for the first time. It was his last hope of finding a cure for the polio that had left him crippled three years earlier.

Detailed explanation-3: -After discovering the benefits of aquatic therapy, Roosevelt purchased the resort in 1926 and converted it into a rehabilitation facility for survivors of polio. Over the next decade, Warm Springs became an innovative site for physical therapy, both medically and socially.

Detailed explanation-4: -Warm Springs is home to Georgia’s largest state park, one of two national fish hatcheries in the state, and one of three presidential homes in Georgia – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s beloved “Little White House.”

Detailed explanation-5: -Now a National Historic Landmark, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built the Little White House in 1932 while governor of New York, prior to being inaugurated as president in 1933. He first came to Warm Springs in 1924 hoping to find a cure for the infantile paralysis (polio) that had struck him in 1921.