Overview
This compact route explores Franklin D. Roosevelt's long relationship with west-central Georgia. F.D. Roosevelt State Park preserves the Pine Mountain landscape he knew well, including Dowdell's Knob, while Civilian Conservation Corps-built park features make New Deal public works visible in the landscape. The Warm Springs Historic District broadens the story to the therapeutic community and foundation that drew Roosevelt to Georgia beginning in the 1920s. The trip concludes at Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site, the modest residence Roosevelt built in 1932 and used throughout his presidency until his death there in 1945. Together the sites connect disability history, rural Georgia, the New Deal, the presidency, and the home-front years of World War II in a geographically tight itinerary.
