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Little White House

Warm Springs, GA · Columbus$Adults $13, seniors $9.75, youth 6 to 17 $7.50

About

Franklin Roosevelt built this modest pine cottage in 1932 and returned to it again and again to ease his polio in the nearby warm mineral springs, and it is where he died of a stroke on April 12, 1945. The rooms sit just as he left them, down to the Unfinished Portrait he was sitting for that morning, and the museum walks you through his Warm Springs years before the path leads to the small white house in the pines.

Highlights

Getting there

401 Little White House Rd, Warm Springs, GA 31830

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