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Warm Springs: Built in the Queen Anne style in 1893 by Warm Springs' co-founder, Benjamin F. Bulloch, the house was the location of "The Bulloch House Restaurant". The house was completely destroyed by a fire on June 10, 2015. [4] 3: Carmel Rural Historic District: Carmel Rural Historic District: August 10, 1998 : E of GA 85.
Warm Springs Historic District is a historic district in Warm Springs, Georgia, United States. It includes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Little White House and the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, where Roosevelt indulged in its warm springs. Other buildings in the district tend to range from the 1920s and 1930s.
Little White House, 1933 Little White House, 1933. Residents of Georgia, particularly Savannah, began spending vacations at Bullochville in the late 18th century as a way to escape yellow fever, attracted by the number of warm springs in the vicinity. In the late 19th century, traveling to the warm springs was a desirable way to escape from ...
Warm Springs 1935 Warm Springs 1933. Warm Springs, originally named "Bullochville" (after the Bulloch family, which began after Stephen Bullock moved to Meriwether County in 1806 from Edgecombe County, North Carolina), first came to prominence in the 19th century as a spa town, because of its mineral springs which flow constantly at nearly 90 °F (32 °C).
F.D. Roosevelt State Park is a 9,049 acres (36.62 km 2) Georgia state park located near Pine Mountain and Warm Springs. The park is named for former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who sought a treatment for his paralytic illness in nearby Warm Springs at the Little White House. The park is located along the Pine Mountain Range.
Tom W. Loyless (ca.1871 - March 19, 1926), now best known as the manager owner of the Warm Springs spa resort, owned by George Foster Peabody. Prior to managing the resort, Loyless, a native of west Georgia, served as a newspaper reporter, editor and publisher at papers in Augusta, Columbus and Macon. He was " one of the South's leading ...
Dowdell's Knob is a prominent mountain in Harris County, Georgia. [1] It is the highest point in Harris County at 1,395 feet (425 meters) above sea level and the highest point on the Pine Mountain Range in the area. [2] It is often referred to as a historical spot where former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would dine occasionally.
A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring.While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fallen leaves, animals, etc., the enclosing structure was also used for refrigeration before the advent of ice delivery and, later, electric refrigeration.