Mont Belvieu, originally known as "Big Hill" and later "Barbers Hill," was first settled by Amos Barber, born in Louisiana in 1814, who came to Texas as a youth and married Susan Ann Hodges Fitzgerald in 1848. In 1849 he hauled logs by ox-drawn sled to this site and built a two-story dog trot cabin. Nearby were an orchard of peach and fig trees and plantation land stocked with horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry. Located on the main road from Huntsville to Lynchburg, the Barber home was visited by travelers and friends, including Sam Houston and Ashbel Smith. A real estate broker and cattleman, Barber enlarged the house over the years to accommodate his family of ten children. He and his wife were buried south of their original homestead in the family cemetery, which is still used and maintained by their descendants. About 1923 the home was dismantled, leaving only a well as evidence of its existence. A rooming house later built on the site was eventually bought by the Woodmen of the World for a lodge hall. Mont Belvieu Church of Christ acquired the property in 1974 after Amos Barber's eldest daughter Amanda Melissa and her husband Marion Williams had given adjacent land to the church.