October 3, 1924

FDR and Warm Springs

Warm Springs soothed his body and restored his spirit. Franklin Roosevelt made his first visit to the healing waters on this day in 1924. Roosevelt contracted polio three years earlier and traveled to Warm Springs on the advice of George Foster Peabody, his friend and part-owner of the springs. He visited 41 times. Other polio […]

Did you know?

In 2005, HBO released the biographical film Warm Springs, depicting Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s battle with polio.