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Sample West Georgia Itinerary

Tour FDR's vacation home, , and a Civil War Prison Camp - or chose to visit Jimmy
Carter's boyhood farm and schoolhouse - all in Central, West Georgia

Booth Western Art Museum

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. You can

also chose to stop in Plains, where 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 Train Depot,

and The Carter Boyhood Farm. 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.