Evelyn (Gibson) Mason and her husband, Jack, live in probably the only house in Lee County listed in the State and National Registers of Historical Places, with the presentation made in 1992.
The three-story stone house is presently located on 62 1⁄2 acres (reduced over the years from about 85 acres) on the western edge of Jonesville, with the original smokehouse still standing and a family cemetery overlooking the property.
Construction of the house was started about 1844 and finished about four years later by Benjamin Dickenson. The house was purchased from Dickenson’s heirs by Andrew Milbourn. Evelyn said her grandfather, Michael Brown Wygal, about 1860 or ’61, bought the house from William E. Wynn in 1919 and handed it down to Evelyn’s mother, Bonnie Wygal Gibson. Evelyn, who inherited it in 1976, said the house has been in the family for 82 years. The house was known as the Dickenson-Milbourn house for years.
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