Built as a log house circa 1850, it was a Southern plantation with African slaves in the Antebellum era.

[3] Allison, who served on the Davidson County Court, owned ten African slaves.

[3] The two-storey log house was built for the Allison family by Thomas Jones and Caleb Lucas,[2] two carpenters, circa 1850.

[3] After the war, the remaining 20 former slaves, now freedmen, worked on the property as tenant farmers.

[3] Subsequently, the property was inherited by Allison's granddaughter, Allie Morton and her husband, Sam.