It was built in 1795, and was the home George Walton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, from then until his death in 1804.

[3] The Walton House is located on the south side of Wrightsboro Road, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of downtown Augusta.

It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a pair of brick chimneys near the ends.

The main facade, seven bays wide, is adorned with a two-story veranda, the sections each consisting of a segmented arch supported by slender square columns.

Exchanged and released, he was soon afterward elected Governor of Georgia, an office he held from November 1779 to January 1780.