Built by John Bowen before 1820 and purchased in 1822 by William Trousdale, Governor of Tennessee from 1849 to 1851, this house became associated with a soldier and political leader who fought in the War of 1812 and in the Creek, Seminole, and Mexican Wars, and who was brevetted brigadier-general by President Polk in 1848. In 1900 Annie Berry Trousdale, wife of William Trousdale's son Julius, a Confederate veteran, gave the house to Clark Chapter No. 13 U.D.C.