Warner Robins Convention & Visitors Bureau

Specialties

Maps, brochures, lodging/​restaurant/​meeting place information, itineraries

History

Established in 1943.

Geographically located in the center of Georgia, Houston County was established in 1821 during the Treaty of Indian Springs. For nearly fifty years the town was known as York until after the Civil War when the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad connected from Macon to Perry. Land was donated by Henry Feagin Jr. to Chief Engineer William H. Wells, and served as a whistle stop for the next sixty years surrounded by dairy farms, corn fields, peach orchards, and pecan groves. When the Great Depression hit the country in the early 1930’s, business leaders took an interest in the growing defense industry. The Middle Georgia business community invited the U.S. Army to build an aviation field in the region. In June 1941 after much competition with other sites, the War Department announced the approval of the site sixteen miles south of Macon and just east of the railroad on what is known today as Highway 247 in Warner Robins. Land was purchased from 47 local families, totaling 3,108 a