Nimrod Washington Long moved to Alabama from Georgia in the 1830s. A planter, mill owner, and state legislator, he had real estate and railroad interests in Russell County. His plantation home stood in Spring Hill, Barbour County. In 1875, his son, Nimrod William Ezekiel Long (1834-1923), had the house dismantled, the pieces numbered, transported by ox cart, and reassembled on this site. Nimrod William Ezekiel Long was a civil engineer, Confederate veteran, planter, and merchant who lived here until his death. The house is an example of Greek Revival architecture.