Tag: Warner Robins
Warner Robins is a city in the US state of Georgia, located primarily in Houston County with a small portion in Peach County. The city has its own metropolitan statistical area (Warner Robins metropolitan area). As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 66,588. From 2000 to 2010, the Warner Robins city population growth percentage was 36.4% (or from 48,804 people to 66,588 people).
The city was originally named York and, later, Wellston, which was little more than a train stop for local farmers.{Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} During World War II, to gain a military base, the town agreed to change its name in honor of Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins.{Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} The base was originally an Army Air Corps repair depot named Wellston Army Air Corps Air Depot. {Warner Robins Daily Sun 1987} When the U.S. Air Force was founded in 1947, the base was named Robins Air Force Base; the logistics headquarters was originally named the Warner Robins Air…
