The two-story wood-frame house was built for Thomas Sanford Driskell, a planter and a merchant from Virginia, in 1850.

The house was used as a Union headquarters during the American Civil War.

The house remained in the Driskell family until purchased by Dr. Thomas Munroe Martin in 1915.

[2] It was added to National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 1987, as a part of the Plantersville Multiple Resource Area.

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