The Searcy
House was built in the 1870s by Archibald Smith, a minister at the nearby Shiloh Primitive
Baptist Church. In 1884, W. H. Searcy bought the house. Searcy and
his wife Canzadie raised four children there. One of the children, Lockwood,
was born, grew up, and spent his married life with wife Annabel in
the house until 1980, when the house and much of its contents were left
to the museum. Today, the house is furnished to reflect the life of an
upper middle class family during the 1940s.