William Carvin Winters and his wife Lavinia Winters came to Texas from Tennessee in 1834 with other members of his family. William and his brothers James Washington and John Frelan fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, where William was severely wounded. He became a noted woodcarver and furniture craftsman in Walker County and in Seguin. The family eventually settled in Hays County, and William and Lavinia arrived there between 1853 and 1855. He built a mill on Cypress Creek in 1856, and it became the economic hub of the village, which took the name Winters' Mill. William built a homestead on this site in 1857-1858, from which he could survey his sawmill and gristmill and their power source, Cypress Creek. One of the first stone houses in the area, the house had eighteen-inch-thick limestone walls. After William's death, his daughter Nancy and her husband John Cude took over the mill, and the village became known as Cude's Mill. They sold the mill and family home to Pleasant and Amanda Wimberley in 1874. With their son Zachary, the Wimberleys expanded the business to include flour and sorghum molasses production as well as a cotton gin. The village name soon changed to Wimberley's Mill, later Wimberley. Zachary Wimberley's son-in-law, John Will Pyland, lived in the homestead and kept the mill in business until 1925. The house evolved through various alterations and additions that reflected the changing needs of the families who occupied it, and this village landmark remained with Wimberley family descendants until the 1990s.