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History · Warm Springs

Warm Springs’ post office opened in 1828, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940

4 places in town are on the National Register, among them the Warm Springs Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, and a historic district with 50 buildings. Below: 10 old photos and papers, maps from 1934 on, and the census since 1910.

1828first post office
4on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
10old photos & papers
2famous people
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From Warm Springs’ archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Warm Springs began

When was Warm Springs founded?

1828

The Warm Springs post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Bullockville (1888), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

First census: 204 in 19102020 census: 465198 years
Founding year: the first Warm Springs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Warm Springs’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A historic districtThe Warm Springs Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, takes in 50 historic buildings.A National Historic Landmark4 places on the National Register, including Warm Springs Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.Deep rootsA post office since 1828: 198 years of Warm Springs.Old housesHalf of Warm Springs’ homes were built before 1961.
★ What stands out · On the National Register

4 listings protect 55 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.

places listed
4
National Historic Landmark
1
Warm Springs Historic District
historic buildings protected
55
each building in a district counts
first listed
1974
Warm Springs Historic District
Eleanor Roosevelt School, built 1937Benjamin F. Bulloch HouseBulloch Family HouseWarm Springs Historic District★
BuildingsDistricts★ landmark

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival1
Queen Anne1
Folk Victorian1
Bungalow/Craftsman1
★ Landmark
Warm Springs Historic DistrictDistrict
Eleanor Roosevelt SchoolColonial Revival · Built 1937
All 4 listings
Benjamin F. Bulloch HouseBuilding · listed 1994Bulloch Family HouseBuilding · listed 2002

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Timeline

Warm Springs, 1828 to 2004

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1828Post officeThe Warm Springs post office opens
  3. 1888Post officeThe Bullockville post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1907Born hereGeorge W. Jenkins is born here
  6. 1926Post officeThe Bullockville post office closes
  7. 1927In the archiveSwimming pool at the Warm Springs Foundation
  8. 1933In the archiveExtemporaneous remarks of the President in
  9. 1934On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 1937BuiltEleanor Roosevelt School is built
  11. 1940In the archiveGeorgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part)
  12. 1966In the archiveRoosevelt Memorial Airport in
  13. 1980LandmarkWarm Springs Historic District named a National Historic Landmark
  14. 21st century
  15. 2004Born hereMykel Williams is born here
The story

How Warm Springs came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Warm Springs.

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Warm Springs, originally named "Bullochville" (after the Bulloch family, which began after Stephen Bullock moved to Meriwether County in 1806 from Edgecombe County, North Carolina), first came to prominence in the 19th century as a spa town, because of its mineral springs which flow constantly at nearly 90 °F (32 °C). Residents of Georgia, particularly Savannah, began spending vacations at Bullochville in the late 18th century as a way to escape yellow fever, finding the number of warm springs in the vicinity of Bullochville very attractive. In the late 19th century traveling to the warm springs was a way to escape the city (in this case Atlanta) for a short while. Traveling by railroad to Durand, visitors would then go to Bullochville, 6 miles (10 km) away. One of the places benefiting from this was the Meriwether Inn. Once the automobile became popular in the early 20th century, touri…

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Warm Springs, decade by decade

4 decades in the archive, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1920s–1930s8 items
Swimming pool at the Warm Springs Foundation1927Swimming pool at the Warm Springs FoundationExtemporaneous remarks of the President in1933Extemporaneous remarks of the President inGeorgia1933GeorgiaGeorgia1933GeorgiaGeorgia1933GeorgiaGeorgia1933GeorgiaGeorgia1935GeorgiaGeorgia1935Georgia
1940s–1960s2 items
Georgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (part)1940Georgia [Effingham County (part) - Newton County (par…Roosevelt Memorial Airport in1966Roosevelt Memorial Airport in
1970s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today7 recent
Benjamin F. Bulloch House;2013Benjamin F. Bulloch House;BULLOCHVILLE, GA (OLD2013BULLOCHVILLE, GA (OLDFDR State Park Wolfden loop 1-12-092009FDR State Park Wolfden loop 1-12-09FDR State Park Wolfden loop 1-12-09 - panoramio (2)2009FDR State Park Wolfden loop 1-12-09 - panoramio (2)FDR State Park Wolfden loop 1-12-09 - panoramio (1)2009FDR State Park Wolfden loop 1-12-09 - panoramio (1)Little White House, FDR2007Little White House, FDRGAMap-doton-WarmSprings2005GAMap-doton-WarmSprings
On the map

Warm Springs on the map, 1934 to 1971

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Warm Springs. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Warm Springs on the 1934 USGS mapWarm Springs on the 1971 USGS map1934Warm Springs sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Warm Springs.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Swimming pool at the Warm Springs Foundation
Retake this viewSwimming pool at the Warm Springs Foundation, 1927

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Warm Springs’ page.

Retake this view · +15
People over time

Warm Springs, census by census

0100200300400500600192019401960198020002020Peak: 608

Between 204 and 608 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Warm Springs’ Wikipedia page.

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Warm Springs

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Mykel WilliamsAmerican football player · b. 2004
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George W. JenkinsAmerican businessman and philanthropist, founde… · b. 1907
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Warm Springs’s post office has been open since 1828. Another post office, Bullockville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Warm Springs
1828–today
Bullockville
1888–1926
18201920today
1cemetery inside Warm Springs
Warm Springs City

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Help out

Finish Warm Springs’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
4 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewSwimming pool at the Warm Springs Found…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Warm Springs’ history

What year was Warm Springs founded?

The Warm Springs post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Warm Springs?

4 listings: 3 buildings and 1 historic district, the Warm Springs Historic District, with 50 contributing buildings. 55 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (16), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.