Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted polio and purchased Pine Mountain property near healing waters at Warm Springs, Georgia. FDR made frequent visits to Georgia over the next two decades.
Roosevelt picnicked at his favorite view of a Georgia mixed pine-oak-hickory forest. He even planted a demonstration forest of longleaf pine on his Georgia farm during the winter season of 1929-30 to lead the effort for conservation and to fight soil erosion.
FDR also inspired a Depression-era building campaign of the rustic style on government forests to support an ailing U.S. work force. Roosevelt reviewed the construction of Pine Mountain State Park's headquarters that was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Roosevelt's Little White House is surrounded by chestnut oaks, black oaks, mockernut hickory and eastern hemlock. He drove his car under many of the existing trees. FDR refused a major landscaping of the grounds in preference of the natural forest.
Roosevelt picnicked at his favorite view of a Georgia mixed pine-oak-hickory forest. He even planted a demonstration forest of longleaf pine on his Georgia farm during the winter season of 1929-30 to lead the effort for conservation and to fight soil erosion.
FDR also inspired a Depression-era building campaign of the rustic style on government forests to support an ailing U.S. work force. Roosevelt reviewed the construction of Pine Mountain State Park's headquarters that was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Roosevelt's Little White House is surrounded by chestnut oaks, black oaks, mockernut hickory and eastern hemlock. He drove his car under many of the existing trees. FDR refused a major landscaping of the grounds in preference of the natural forest.
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- FDR's Unfinished Portrait
- Longleaf Monument FDR
- Guardhouse in Hemlock
- CCC and FDR Inspired Building
- Little White House Entrance
- Trees in FDR's Front Yard
- Little White House through Mountain Chestnut Oak
- A Civilian Conservation Corps Worker
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Pine Mountain Grill
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