In 1937, the foundation asked the public to celebrate the president’s birthday by sending dimes to the White House. The fund drive became an annual event; today we know it as the March of Dimes.
President Franklin Roosevelt's personal struggle with polio led him to create the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at a time when polio was on the rise. Better known as the March of Dimes, the foundation established a polio patient aid program and funded research for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk, MD and Albert Sabin, MD. These vaccines effectively ended epidemic polio in the United States.
ABOUT THIS CACHE: The coordinates take you near a very touching canine monument. Please take time to visit the monument approximately 200 feet from the cache, beneath a large tree near the Main Street. The container is housed in a fairly obvious spot.
This geocache was placed with the permission of the Warm Springs Visitor's Center.