{"nrhp_refnum":"97001273","name":"Pine Mountain State Park","other_names":["FDR State Park, Western Half"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2790 Georgia Hwy. 190","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pine Mountain","county":"Harris County","state":"GA","lat":32.83081012550005,"lon":-78.81725399461216,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-09-25","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1997-09-25","areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Conservation","Politics/Government","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 4,568-acre historic district in Harris County, Georgia, near Pine Mountain, made up of a 1930s state park and an adjoining recreational demonstration area, built with New Deal labor. It is now the western half of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as a rare example of New Deal park planning by the National Park Service, built by the CCC and WPA. It combined a skyline parkway, a group camp area, a lodge and cabins, a day-use area and a campground in one small park. Franklin Roosevelt took a personal interest in it, and the park retains a high degree of integrity. It was designated a National Historic Landmark.","narrative":"Pine Mountain State Park occupies a forested ridge in Harris County, Georgia, about 30 miles north of Columbus. The district covers 4,568 acres and combines a state park with a contiguous recreational demonstration area, a New Deal program that turned worn-out farmland into recreation space. Planning began in 1933, with the National Park Service providing technical supervision and the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration supplying labor. The park opened in 1938 and was complete when the CCC left in 1941. Its features include the Pine Mountain Parkway along the ridge, a tavern, vacation cabins by Lake Delanor, group camps at Lake Franklin, and a day-use area with the Liberty Bell Pool and bathhouse. Franklin Roosevelt, who lived part-time nearby at Warm Springs, promoted the park and the scenic drive. The nomination holds the park up as a varied demonstration of Park Service planning, and notes the group camps survive with almost no alteration. Today it forms the western half of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"National Park Service landscape architects, with Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration labor","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; NPS Rustic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a state park; the historic group camps keep a high degree of integrity, while the Lake Delanor area has had more alterations, including post-World War II cabins and RV pads.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.925868-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/97001273_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001273/1f0e1bb5c2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001273/1f0e1bb5c2-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Thomsonmg2000","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dowdell_knob.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomsonmg2000</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dowdell_knob.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._Roosevelt_State_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5423860"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/harris-county/pine-mountain-state-park-97001273/"}