Southern Magnolia

Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation

Helen Keller loved exploring the grounds of Ivy Green and often spoke and wrote of her favorite trees. One of Helen Keller’s favorite trees was a Water Oak, currently over 200 years old, which she often spoke and wrote. It is a deciduous tree, growing to 100 ft. tall with a trunk up to 3 ft. in diameter.

Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation

The Helen Keller Southern Magnolia grows at her home, Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller grew up to become one of history's remarkable women. She dedicated her life to improving the conditions of blind and the deaf-blind around the world, lecturing in more than 25 countries.

Warm Springs – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Little White House

At Warm Springs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States found the strength to resume his political career and a positive outlet for his own personal struggle with polio through the creation of the Warm Springs Foundation. Influenced by his experiences in this rural area, President Roosevelt developed New Deal programs, such as

Lee Family Plantation

Stratford Hall was home to four generations of the Lee family of Virginia. It was the boyhood home of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, the only brothers to sign, and it was the birthplace of Robert Edward Lee.