USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Shortly after the article was published, polio patients began to arrive hoping to experience the “the Spirit of Warm Springs.” The Warm Springs was such a huge success that FDR opened a polio therapeutic treatment center called the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in 1926.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis and underwent years of therapy, including hydrotherapy at Warm Springs, Georgia. Roosevelt remained paralyzed from the waist down and relied on a wheelchair and leg braces for mobility, which he took efforts to conceal in public.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Little White House was the personal retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, located in the Historic District of Warm Springs, Georgia.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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". Roosevelt bought the resort and the 1, 700-acre (6.9 km2) farm surrounding it in 1927.