Hiram Williams lived in Georgiana from ages 7 to 11 after Mrs. Lillie Williams moved him and his sister Irene there from rural Wilcox County in 1931 to a house owned by Thaddeus B. Rose. When he was 8, his mother bought him a guitar for $3.50, and Black street musician Rufus "Tee-Tot" Payne became his teacher. Hiram practiced guitar under the raised-cottage house and sang on the streets for tips before the family moved to Greenville in the fall of 1934 and then to Montgomery in 1937, where at age 14 he began calling himself Hank. While still a teenager in the early 1940s, Hank Williams used his radio show on WSFA to promote show dates at schools, theaters, and honky-tonks in South Alabama, and Fred Thigpen’s Log Cabin, opened in 1931 a mile from his boyhood home, was one of the most popular dance halls. In 1992, Mayor Lynn Watson led the drive to buy the house for a museum, and the city relocated a portion of Thigpen’s to the site. With the help of fans and volunteers, the museum opened on June 5, 1993, a park was created at the rear of the house for festivals, and the house is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.