The house was built in 1857 for Hamilton Mask, a surveyor who went on to serve as the mayor of Corinth in 1866 and 1872.

[2] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, General Braxton Bragg of the Confederate States Army stayed in the house, as did Confederate General Earl Van Dorn.

[2] Later, General Henry Halleck of the Union Army also stayed in the house.

[2] His widow, Mary Boone Curlee, sold the house outside the family in 1882.

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