History. Tradition. Family.
For centuries, families have lived and, worked the land, enjoying the beauty of Lake Windsong. Each has left its mark on this hilly terrain, which sits along Line Creek, a tributary of the Flint River. The first to walk this land were probably Creek Indians, leaving arrowheads and other relics around their campsites to be discovered centuries later.

As soon as the region was opened to white settlers in the early 1800s, the Russells were the first family to purchase the land. In antebellum times, they owned and operated a cotton plantation here known as Russelltown. Their old plantation home, which burned down in the 1970s, sat near the site of today;s Lake Windsong Lodge. Remnants of a cotton gin, barn and other out buildings have all been found over the years on the property.