Built circa 1850, Statham House was owned by M. John C. Statham, who provided homes for widows of Civil War veterans and donated land for a railroad right-of-way, streets for the town, and a lot for a Methodist Church that is now the city cemetery. Statham, incorporated Dec. 20, 1892, was named in honor of its founder, M.J.C. Statham. The first post office was known as Barber’s Creek in 1846, then DeLay in 1854, and was changed to Statham in 1892. The community was originally known as Calamit Village, part of the Talasee Colony on the Ocoloco Trail, inhabited by Creek and Cherokee Indians. In 1784 white settlers paid Indian Chief Umausauga 14 pounds of beads for land from Calamit to Snodon and Poganip, calling it Beadland.