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Hot Springs National Park has been making news since William Dunbar and Dr. George Hunter brought the first scientific information on these hot springs to President Jefferson in 1805. |
Did You Know?
On June 10, 1936, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Hot Springs National Park and toured the Fordyce Bathhouse as part of the Arkansas centennial celebration. FDR used the baths at Warm Springs, Georgia, on a regular basis to relieve his polio. He never bathed in Hot Springs.