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Franklin D. Roosevelt first visited Warm Springs in 1924, after contracting polio, and soon thereafter bought a home in the area. The house later became known as the "Little White House," after Roosevelt's election as U.S. president in 1932.

Courtesy of Explore Georgia, Photograph by Ralph Daniel.

Little White House

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