Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated in car in Warm Springs, Ga., on April 4, 1939. The town is famous for being the site of the Little White House, where Roosevelt spent much of his time due to his paralytic illness. He first came in the 1920s in hopes that the warm water would improve his condition. He was a constant visitor for two decades and died there in 1945. The Little White House is now a public museum.
House E-15, whose original owner is identified as homesteader A. Wagner, has been preserved for tourism and remains furnished on Dec. 4, 2008, much as it was when the New Deal community of Arthurdale, W.Va., was built in the 1930's.
A ledger on display inside an original homestead on Dec. 4, 2008, in Arthurdale, W.Va., shows the household expenses one family incurred as part of the New Deal social experiment. Rent for the house was $9.26 a month in the 1930's.
Postage stamps bearing the likeness of Eleanor Roosevelt have been made into pins for sale to tourists on Dec. 4, 2008, in Arthurdale, W.Va., in a New Deal community she founded and regularly visited in the 1930's and 40's.
An original root cellar in historic Arthurdale, W.Va., a New Deal community established in the 1930's, still holds canned vegetables on Dec. 4, 2008. Canning was one of the skills impoverished West Virginians learned in the community as they tried to become self-sufficient after the Great Depression.
A spinning wheel and a basket of hand-loomed rugs are on display in a museum in Arthurdale, W.Va., that was part of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's original New Deal communities, on Dec. 2, 2008. Weaving was among the skills the planned communities taught impoverished West Virginians in the 1930's as they tried to become self-sufficient after the Great Depression.