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 Warm Springs, Georgia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Warm Springs is a (A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts) city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Meriwether County, Georgia) Meriwether County, Georgia.
It first rose to prominence in the 19th century as a (Click link for more info and facts about spa town) spa town, due to its mineral springs which flow constantly at nearly 90° (German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)) Fahrenheit.
Warm Springs is located at 32°53'19" North, 84°40'48" West (32.888689, -84.680089).
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 Articles - Warm Springs, Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It first rose to prominence in the 19th century as a spa town, due to its mineral springs which flow constantly at nearly 90° Fahrenheit.
It became known to the nation and the world, however, as the vacation retreat of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who first came in the 1920s in hopes that the warm water would improve his polio-induced paraplegia.
The town is still home to the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation (Roosevelt's former polio hospital) which remains a world-renowned comprehensive rehabilitation center including a physical rehabilitation hospital and vocational rehabilitation unit.
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 Warm Springs on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Spring forward: warmer climates accelerate life cycles of plants, animals.
Warm `False Spring' Days Invite Young Slugs and Snails To Feast on Fresh, Unbaited Plants; Gardeners Should Apply Molluscicide With First Planting and Thereafter.
The big pool at Kah-Nee-Ta resort in Warm Springs, Oregon, is the big draw with its 140-foot-long-waterslide.
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 Warm Springs. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Destroyed by fire in 1865, it was soon rebuilt and became fashionable by the end of the 19th cent.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who found the water beneficial after his attack of poliomyelitis, established (1927) the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation to help other victims of the disease, and he gave the foundation his 2,600-acre (1,052-hectare) farm there.
Nearby is the city, incorporated in 1924 as Warm Springs, formerly named Bullochville.
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 president died warm springs georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
… In April 1945, FDR returned to Warm Springs, Georgia, a destination … for a portrait, he collapsed and died of a … Vice President Harry Truman took the oath of …
… During a vacation at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945 …; he suffered a massive stroke and died two and … President Roosevelt was buried in the Rose Garden of …
In April of 1945, President Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia.
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 AllRefer.com - Warm Springs, Georgia (GA) (Meriwether County) - (resort) - Facts and Information
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.
(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.
Nearby is the town, inc. in 1924 as Warm Springs, formerly named Bullochville.
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