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        Venture into West Georgia



                  olumbus makes a great base for venturing out for fantastic experiences
                  in the region. Hike, camp and horseback ride through F.D. Roosevelt
                  State Park, take a trek through Providence Canyon, Georgia’s “Little
        C Grand Canyon,” exercise your “picker” skills at country antique
        shops, see where history was made. Sites you don’t want to miss include:


               Little          when Roosevelt suffered a   fight with polio. Self-guided
               WHITE           massive stroke and died. The   and guided tours available.
                                                     gastateparks.org/Little
                               house in Warm Springs was
             HOUSE             established for Roosevelt   WhiteHouse
        See the “Unfinished    in the hopes the healing
        Portrait” of the nation’s   powers of the warm spring   “Fun for
        32nd president, Franklin   water there would end his   Historical Pleasure.”
        Delano Roosevelt, hanging
        in the carefully preserved
        house with furnishings very
        much as Roosevelt left them
        in 1945. Painted on April
        12, 1945, the portrait was   Little White House
        disrupted and never finished
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