In 1889, Dr. George McHenry and his wife, Una, led a group of 54 families from Michigan to homestead in northern Harrison County, Mississippi.

[4] They settled in an area which would become part of Stone County, where the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was under construction.

A small town developed with timber-related industries that prospered because of the vast virgin pine forests of south Mississippi.

While Dr. McHenry was in military service during the Spanish–American War, his wife oversaw the construction and expansion of their family home.

The building was constructed with virgin yellow pine lumber and rests on brick foundation piers.