A road extending one mile south traverses a spur projecting into Pine Mountain Valley and ends at a knob one thousand three hundred ninety-five feet above sea level overlooking a broad view of the valley floor. The knob was named for two pioneer Harris County settlers, Lewis and James Dowdell, of Virginia ancestry who settled here in 1828. While staying at The Little White House near Warm Springs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President of the United States, found momentary rest and relaxation while contemplating the wide expanse of land and sky from the summit of Dowdell’s Knob.