The proceeds are intended to start a fund for the construction of a patio off the assembly room of the building. The landscaping of the grounds is also a project of the club and planting is now well under way. The movement is headed by Mrs. B.W. Goss, club civic projects chairman.
Oldsters recall that the front steps remained bloodstained for many years.
No one knows just how old the house is. Dr. Samuel P. DuBois, who served in the Crescent Regiment at the Battle of Mansfield, bought the property from Lewis Phillips in 1859, but the deed does not show the existence of a house. However, descendants of the DuBois family have heard their grandparents speak of the Phillips family who lived there before they did. Standing second on the same historic road, now Gibbs Street, is the stately old James West home in which many wounded soldiers were nursed after the battle. Built early in 1856 and showing a definite Greek influence, the house has undergone no major repairs since slave labor hewed out the 44-foot long single timber that forms the front sill.