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Health Care
Meriwether County had 8.3 licensed nursing home beds per 100 persons in 1999, compared with the state average of 5.5 per 100 persons. In 1999, the number of physicians in the county per 10,000 persons was 5.2, compared to the state average of 19.3. For more community indicators, please go to OASIS .

History*

Meriwether County was created in 1827 as Georgia's 73rd county. The County was named for General David Meriwether, a state militiaman, legislator, and member of Congress.

Warm Springs, site of President Roosevelt's "Little White House," is in the county. The springs' waters remain a constant 90 degrees, and were used by Indians as a healing spring and later as a spa for white settlers. More recently, Franklin D. Roosevelt and other polio victims have benefitted from the therapeutic water. After the invention of the polio vaccine, the Warm Springs Foundation opened its doors to people suffering from other crippling diseases and conditions.