Georgia Warm Springs Foundation - GHS 99-3 - Meriwether Co., GA
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Georgia Warm Springs Foundation historic marker located at Georgia Hall, 6315 Roosevelt Hwy, Warm Springs, GA.
Waymark Code: WM6QNG
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2009
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Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
These gates mark the original entrance to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, established in July 1927 by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Basil O´Connor for the treatment of polio victims. Roosevelt himself suffered from polio beginning in 1921. Learning of the therapeutic nature of the watersat Warm Springs, Roosevelt spent two-thirds of his personal assets to acquire the Warm Springs property in 1926. Roosevelt´s 1932 election to the presidency facilitated fundraising efforts for the Foundation, whose pioneering work to alleviate the debilitating effects of polio expanded in 1938 when Roosevelt created the March of Dimes to unify a national effort to eradicate the disease.
2004.2 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the Roosevelt Warm Springs Development Fund, Inc. 99-3
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: GHS 99.3
Date: 2004
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society and the Roosevelt Warm Springs Development Fund, Inc.
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