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Sample West Georgia Itinerary

Your day will begin in Warm Springs, at FDR’s Little White House. Here, your
students will get a tour of FDR’s vacation home, where he spent each summer

between 1924-1945. At the Little White House, your students will get to see FDR’s
vacation home, largely the way he left it, and will discover the natural hot springs that

originally brought FDR to Georgia. Students will see the motivation for many of FDR’s
“New Deal” programs, which largely arose after FDR began to see, firsthand, the

struggles of “small town” people in rural Georgia. While stopping in Plains, your
students will receive an education in President Jimmy Carter’s connection to rural

West Georgia, and how his upbringing affected his policies. Depending on what you
wish to cover, you will have your pick of viewing his boyhood schoolhouse, the Plains
Booth Western Art Museum
Train Depot, The Carter Boyhood Farm, and the Plains Train Depot. Following lunch,

your students will travel to Andersonville POW Museum. Originally a Confederate
prison during the Civil War, the historic site has been transformed into a Museum for
POW from each American War.