In the early years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s time in Meriwether County, he saw that little effort was being made to replace trees on cut-over or burned areas not suitable for agriculture. As a demonstration of replacement, along with erosion and watershed control, he devoted a little over five acres of his farm to planting 5000 longleaf pine seedlings in the winter of 1929-1930. The plantings were made in the area immediately south of this site. A tornado in 1954 destroyed about half the original stand.