The Connellee House was the home of Charles U. Connellee (1851-1930), who opened much of West Texas to settlement. Coming as a surveyor from Kentucky in 1874, he platted the town of Eastland and promoted it as a county seat. He built the lower story of his home in 1876 of lumber hauled from Dallas by oxwagon and kept open house for all of West Texas. A second story was added in 1924, and after further remodeling in 1956, 1963, and 1971, the structure was preserved by Judge and Mrs. Austin McCloud.