This general area is believed to be the site of the Indian village of Costa, visited by DeSoto on July 2, 1540. Very old cedar trees may have stood here at that time, and they are among the largest in the Southeast. These cedars are among the comparatively few remaining on the bluffs of the Coosa, from which Cedar Bluff derived its name. A log building here was originally built as a blacksmith shop about 1832 by G.J. Williamson, an early settler. It contains many tools of that period and is believed to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, structure in the county still in use. The house is the third on this site: the first was a log structure, the second an American Gothic type structure, and the present house a modified replica of a Virginia farmhouse of the 1600s.