Warm Springs (Georgia)

Meriwether County

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Warm Springs is a town with 485 inhabitants (as of 2000) in Meriwether County, Georgia in the United States. The metropolitan area has a size of 3.2 km ².

History

The mid- 1800s was the southern landscape littered with hot springs and Georgia was no exception. The warm mineral springs attracted to the beginning of the 19th century first settlers in the region. 1832, the first tourist infrastructure was created in Warm Springs by David Rose. Wealthy property owners and business people from the south took advantage of the various sites during the hot summer months. In these places there were also a hotel near the hot springs at the foot of Pine Mountain, which was attended by influential guests such as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. In 1893 a larger hotel building was built in the Victorian style with 180 rooms at the hot springs. Because the hotel was in Meriwether County, it was given the name " Meriwether Inn ". It stood on a hill overlooking the fields and the sources that were to a large outdoor swimming pool. By following the railroad and stagecoach, pulled at the Inn patrons from all over the Southeast. At the turn of the century, the decline of the spa sit -in.

1923 acquired a group led by George Foster Peabody, a well-known businessman from Columbus, Georgia, the property. 1924 visited the later U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Warm Springs to benefit from the healing effects of the hot springs. Roosevelt was afraid of the " Inn " because of the inaccessible nature with numerous steps and wooden construction and lived rather in the Pierson and McCarthy Cottages ( before he built the Little White House ). Despite a large revival due to the change of ownership and the arrival of polio sufferers from around the country ( in the wake of publicity surrounding Roosevelt's presence ) Peabody sold the property to Franklin D. Rosevelt for $ 195,000 in 1926.

Roosevelt returned two decades regularly to Warm Springs in 1927 and founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation as a hospital for polio patients. The resulting rehabilitation clinic is now called Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation and treated approximately 6,000 patients per year.

Attractions

Roosevelt had built a small cottage, which he used during his visits and where he died on 12 April 1945. Known as " Little White House " designated property has been left in its original state and is home to a museum.

In the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, the Polio Hall of Fame, the 1958 bronze busts were placed 15 polio researchers as well as by Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor is.

Film

The disease of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his stays in Warm Springs are the subject of U.S. television film Warm Springs. The city and its historic baths from the twenties were the location for the majority of the scenes.

Source

Warm Springs History

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