Warm Springs Historic District

The springs at Warm Springs have flowed at nearly 90 degrees since before anyone recorded them — prehistoric people used them, then Savannah families fleeing yellow fever, then Atlanta money riding the railroad to Bullochville. By the time Franklin Roosevelt arrived in October 1924, the town and its Meriwether Inn were already in decline. Roosevelt bought the resort and surrounding farmland in 1927, built his Little White House in 1932, visited sixteen times as president, and died here on April 12, 1945. The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980. Much of it looks the same as it did then.