Rose Cottage was burned during the Civil War by Confederate General Stan Watie. The area Park Hill was called the "Athens" of Indian Territroy. The Murrell Home which was built in the mid 1840s was built by the Virginia merchant George Murrell for his wife Minerva Ross and he called the mansion "Hunter's Home". It is thought that the home was not burned because Geroge Murrell was a Mason and was admired by Stan Watie. In looking back in my material I see where the earliest photo of the site is in the late 1800s. A view from the back near their spring house with the home in the background. ( In the book "The Cherokee Nation and Tahlequah" by Deborah L. Duvall, page 77. Page 79 a view of Rose Cattage.