Among Windsor's earliest homesteaders were Robert Cunningham, his wife Isabella, and their daughter Mary Jane. Cunningham was a successful farmer who built the first corral, a site used by American and Spanish settlers for branding livestock, and the family helped build Windsor's earliest public structures, including the school and Methodist Church. The Hembree family arrived in Windsor in 1860 and were active in the town's early commercial development in the late 1880's after completion of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad. Across the street from the Bell Ranch House at 295 Windsor River Road stands the David H. DuVander Home, built in the late 1800s as the residence of merchant David H. DuVander, who brought the first branch of Exchange Bank to Windsor. The Bell Ranch House, a large two story residence influenced by Greek Revival architecture, was constructed in 1860 by Henry Bell, one of Windsor's first settlers, who owned considerable property and established the first mercantile store on the 160 acres he purchased from the land office in San Francisco, land that encompassed a large portion of Windsor south of Windsor River Road. The first Hembree house in the 1870s led to this house built in 1931, which now houses the Windsor History Museum.