Constructed circa 1770, this log house is considered the birthplace of Emory & Henry College. Here Tobias Smyth and the Reverend Creed Fulton chose the names of John Emory and Patrick Henry for the college. Smyth, Fulton, Col. William Byars, and Andrew Findlay made the first gifts for the purchase of the Crawford Farm as the college site. In 1929, the Tobias Smythe house was moved to its current location from its original site about a mile north of campus.