Elisha Winn built this house around 1812. In 1818, the Georgia General Assembly created Gwinnett County from Cherokee and Creek cessions and part of Jackson County, and the first Gwinnett elections and sessions of the Inferior Court were held in this house, while the Superior Court met in Winn’s barn. Elisha Winn was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 1777, moved to South Carolina and then to Jackson County, Georgia, where he served as a justice of the Inferior Court, and later also served as justice of the Inferior Court in Gwinnett, as a state senator in 1826, and as a state representative in 1830, 1833, and 1837. Winn died on March 4, 1842, and is buried in the old Lawrenceville cemetery. Restoration of the house was completed by the Gwinnett Historical Society in 1986.