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Place Name
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Warm Springs
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Place Status (Type)
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resort
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Location
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Meriwether County, Georgia (GA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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32°53'N
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Longitude
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84°40'W
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Warm Springs
, resort, Meriwether co., W Ga.,
18 mi/29 km W of Thomaston, and
65 mi/105 km SW of Atlanta; 32°53'N
84°40'W. The salutary properties of the water springing from Pine Mt.
were known to Native Americans, and settlers learned of them in the
late 18th cent. By the 1830s, a resort was built. Destroyed by fire in
1865, it was soon rebuilt and became fashionable by the end of the 19th
cent. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who found the water beneficial
after his attack of poliomyelitis, est. (1927) the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation to help other victims of the disease, and he gave the
foundation his 2,600-acre/1,052-ha farm here; facilities
restored again in 1990s. Roosevelt retained the cottage known as the
Little White House (now a natl. landmark), in which he died in 1945.
Nearby is the town, inc. in 1924 as Warm Springs, formerly named
Bullochville.
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