Mike Muckleroy, a pioneer, farmer, soldier, and county official born in Franklin County, Tennessee, came to Texas in 1840 and became an early and long-time resident of Colorado County, where he was affectionately known as "Uncle Mike." In 1842, two years after arriving in Texas and six years after Texas won independence from Mexico, he joined the campaign to expel General Adrian Woll from San Antonio after Woll, a French mercenary and officer in the Mexican Army, led 1,000 troops to take the city; the Texans soon forced the retreat back into Mexico. Muckleroy then returned to Colorado County, received a Republic of Texas land grant, farmed the land, and built a home near this site. His two-story log house, which included a watch tower against Indian raids, was saved from demolition in the 1970s and moved to Henkel Square in Round Top. From 1846 to 1852 and again from 1876 to 1878, he served as a County Commissioner. In 1895 he sold his property and moved to Terrell in Northeast Texas, where he lived with family members until his death, and he was buried in the Muckleroy graveyard near his old homesite.