He relocated to Pennsylvania, and in 1770, George Washington spent the night in a log cabin on the northeastern corner of Lot Number 48.

Dr. Herbert P. Stelling purchased the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House in 1973, and it opened as a museum and an arts and handicrafts shop known as Colonial Craftsmen.

[15] In 1681 Bennet sold his share to Lord Colepeper, who received a new charter for the entire land grant from James II in 1688.

[11][18][19] The area surrounding present-day Romney remained sparsely populated by European settlers until the middle of the 18th century, when tensions with Native Americans began to subside.

[20] Around this time, Lord Fairfax wanted to have the lands of his Northern Neck Proprietary used and enticed European settlers to move there.

[20] Gravel Lane, the present-day street where the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House is located, follows an old trail used by Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers.

[20] In 1763, Colonel George William Wilson received a patent to Lot Number 48 from Lord Fairfax and purchased it from Murphy.

[22] On October 9, 1770, George Washington purportedly stayed the night in an old log house at the northeastern corner of Lot Number 48.

[22][24] He was involved in the Pennsylvania–Virginia boundary dispute,[22] and was also selected by the Pennsylvanian faction at Fort Pitt to supervise the election of delegates to the constitutional convention from Pennsylvania.

[3][22] Following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he abandoned his business rather than import and sell goods from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[26] He completed the arrangement of the three sections of the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House and his association with the property lent the complex significance for its listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

[20][26] At that time, Gravel Lane was Romney's main street and the function and architectural beauty of the clerk's office made it a center of activity in the town.

[20] According to West Virginia Antiquities Commission research assistant Phillip R. Pitts and historian James E. Harding, the clerk's office symbolized the end of Romney's frontier existence and the beginning of a more established disposition.

[20] By the start of the 19th century, Romney and the surrounding county had become an established and settled area with a growing economy based on agriculture.

[20][31][32] At the time of the property's 1959 sale, much of the complex structures' original building materials and architectural details remained extant, although in a state of deterioration.

[40] The floor beams were rebuilt, the rafters were replaced, and a new red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) shingle roof was installed.

[40] The rear kitchen building was cleaned, repaired, and covered with new weatherboards, both its interior and exterior were painted white, and it was topped with cedar shakes.

[40] Dr. Herbert P. Stelling of Barre, Massachusetts, purchased the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House in May 1973,[2][31][32] and in October it was opened as a museum and an arts and handicrafts shop known as Colonial Craftsmen.

[43] Old Hampshire, Ltd., Bob and Estelle Odle, Tom Stump, Lowell Hott, and Dottie Eddis, purchased the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House in October 1985.

[3][31][32] Hott and Eddis originally planned to convert the complex into a bed and breakfast; however, since 1988, they have utilized the residential house as the Romney satellite office for their Augusta Animal Hospital veterinary clinic.

[44] Hott and Eddis have continued to maintain and restore the house, and have completed large construction projects, including a renovation of the kitchen building's crumbling stone chimney and a replacement of the 1962 roof shingles in December 2019.

[44] Immediately south of the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House, across East Gravel Lane, is the former location of Romney's Old Presbyterian Church and Cemetery.

[9] They were associated with the house, as Andrew Wodrow was a dynamic and influential member of the Presbyterian Church and granted Lots No.

[9][27][46] The Old Presbyterian Cemetery fell into neglect by the late 19th century and was destroyed around 1940 when the hill on which it was located was cut away and leveled for the construction of a factory.

[9] The Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House is a complex of three independent structures differing in size, type of construction, building orientation, and purpose.

[3][47] Architectural historian S. Allen Chambers characterized the complex as, "a charmingly informal assemblage" and "wonderfully forthright".

[26][40] The rear (northern) structure of the house dates from around 1750, and is thought to be the oldest extant building on the property and in Romney.

[47] The raised wooden paneling of the western walls is modest in design and includes a chimney pent closet flanking the left side of the segmental-arched fireplace in all four rooms.

[47] According to Pitts and Harding, the architectural style and construction pattern of the residential structure were similar to buildings in Tidewater Maryland, built in the period before 1730.

[47] Each of the structure's floors is divided between a large room and a narrow stair hall (in a side-hall plan), which connects the two stories by an open dog-leg stairway.