The house was built in 1809 for Dr. Martin Walton, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.

His wife, Elizabeth, had died in Virginia in 1800, at or near the birth of their youngest child, and never got to see the house.

[2] Walton was a physician, Baptist minister, and large landowner who grew corn and cotton; he also made whiskey.

The house was purchased by William Cook, a veteran of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and his wife Susan, in 1866.

This article about a property in Robertson County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.