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Local Time 9:29 pm Friday, July 25, 2008
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on February 7, 2006
The original house was began north of town in 1831 by W.C. Clark. When Mr. Clark died, the family used this log home as payment for legal work by practicing attorney N. H. Davis
Nathaniel Hart Davis (who came to Montgomery in 1840) disassembled the Clark house in 1851 and moved the logs to its present location where he built his house. Additions to the log house included a side or "shed" room and attic bedroom, and an underground cistern was dug. Judge Davis and his family resided here until 1876. John Felix Davis, son of N.H. moved into the home and continued the renovations. The kitchen was added in 1880 and the south wing was added in 1895. It contains wood graining done by an itinerant painter known as Mr. Patch. I would have liked to see this wood graining.
The historical marker on the house says that Texanna Snow's school was here (and also in the law office next door) in 1881-1891, and that it was given to the Historical Society in memory of Margaret Elizabeth Davis Cameron (1893-1979) by daughters M. D. Cameron and E.C. Adams.
