Nicholas Gibbs, a prominent Knox County pioneer, homesteaded 450 acres here in 1792 and built this hewed log house approximately one year later. It remained in the Gibbs family until 1971. The Nicholas Gibbs Historical Society purchased the house in 1986. It was the boyhood home of three War of 1812 soldiers, one of whom, Capt. Nicholas Gibbs Jr., gave his life at Horseshoe Bend.