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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20ZF_trinity-united-methodist-church_Warm-Springs-GA.html
In 1854, Harmony Church near the Ogletree cemetery, Liberty Church close by the old Campbell place, and Providence Church from the Strickland neighborhood, all came together, after twenty-two years of sharing camp meeting worship, to form Trinity …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20UL_union-cemetery_Pine-Mountain-GA.html
Dr. Hope Hull Tigner was born near Athens, Georgia on May 28, 1792, and became a physician and state legislator prior to moving his family to Meriwether County. In 1833 a frame house with green blinds was built across the road from the present Uni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L57_franklin-d-roosevelt_Warm-Springs-GA.html
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Beginning as the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, this hospital for polio patients was founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927.
The Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation is today an internationally recognized com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19KU_franklin-delano-roosevelt_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Died in this house on April 12 1945No soldier gave more on any battlefield than he who here gave his life for his country no greater martyr ever served the cause of freedom
This tablet erected June 25 1947 by the Presidential Electors who in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12V6_red-oak-creek-covered-bridge_Woodbury-GA.html
This bridge was built in the 1840s by freed slave and noted bridge builder Horace King (1807-1885). Constructed on the Town lattice design, the bridge's web of planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles are fastened at each intersection with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSRZ_warm-springs-treatment-pools_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Georgia's largest and most famous warm spring delivers 914 gallons of 88?F per minute to a catch basin beneath the buildings at the base of the hill in front of you. The springs have been used for recreation and healing for centuries. Franklin D. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSQW_the-little-white-house_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Warm Springs in 1924 in hopes of recovering from the effects of polio. His love for the area and hopes for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation led him to build a small white clapboard cottage on these pine scented slo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS9V_noted-indian-trail_Gay-GA.html
The road from the east is a remnant of the Oakfuskee Path, main stem of the noted upper trading route from the Savannah River to the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama Beginning at present Augusta, it led this way via Warrenton, Eatonton, Griffi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF9D_old-depot-site-warm-springs_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Here stood the little depot of the Southern R. R. where Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived & departed on his many visits to Warm Springs during the years 1924-1945.
A personal interest in the after treatment of infantile paralysis led him, in 1924, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEP1_roosevelt-farm_Warm-Springs-GA.html
Over 2200 acres atop Pine Mountain were purchased 1926-37, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, some 150 acres of which were pasture and crop land — the rest in pine and hardwoods.
The farm was operated on a self-sustaining basis by adherence to me…