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Drawn to these 88-degree mineral springs in 1924 seeking relief from polio, Franklin Roosevelt found such benefit that he bought the resort and founded a foundation, turning the open-air pools into a pioneering center of hydrotherapy for polio survivors.
Warm Springs Treatment Pools is a historical marker in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, erected in 1995. It is one of 17 historical markers documented in Meriwether County, among 132 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 32.8927, -84.6900 near Warm Springs. The nearest cataloged historic site is Roosevelt’s Little White House, Pools (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, and Eleanor Roosevelt School.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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