Dowdell's Knob State Historical
Marker
Located on Ga. 190 in northeastern Harris
County near the Meriwether County line
32.85744, -84.73686
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DOWDELL'S KNOB
The road extending one mile
south traverses a spur which projects into Pine Mountain Valley
and terminates in a knob 1395 feet elevation above sea level
overlooking a spectacular spread of the valley floor.
The knob was named for two
pioneer Harris County settlers, Lewis & James Dowdell of
Virginia ancestry who settled here in 1828.
While sojourning at The Little
White House near Warm Springs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32d President
of the United States, found momentary rest and relaxation contemplating
the wide expanse of land and sky as viewed from the summit of
Dowdell's Knob.
072-6 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957
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