[2] Treutlen County is host to the Million Pines Arts and Crafts Festival which takes place during the first weekend in November.

[3] Following the American Revolution, the location's wiregrass (Aristida stricta) attracted settlers, and a timber industry began to develop around the area's longleaf pine forests, supporting occupations from cabinetmaking and milling to turpentine and other naval stores production.

[3] The area's landscape made it difficult to build roads, resulting in a sparse population until after the Civil War when railroads arrived.

[3] During the 1920s, a local cotton farmer named James Fowler planted over 7 million pine trees across 10,000 acres of land.

Fowler worked together with scientist Charles Herty, who developed a process to use pine pulp to create paper.