Local tradition maintains that the Toney-Standley House was built about 1803 by Mr. William Toney. It is reputed that Aaron Burr, third Vice-President of the United States, stayed there overnight on two occasions, once while fleeing to Florida in 1804 and again in 1807 after he was arrested for treason by General Edmund Pendleton Gaines. In 1959 the house was moved from its original site near Sandy Creek to its present location. This Plantation Plain style structure is similar to other early homes built in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Alabama and Georgia, and on September 17, 1974 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.