1867. 202 S. Waco St.
The house, the oldest building continuously occupied in Weatherford, was a two-room dogtrot made of sun-dried bricks with a side-gabled roof. Additions over the years included a front porch and rear wings, and the dogtrot passage was enclosed. Joseph Woolfolk was an attorney who was defense council for Indian chiefs Satanta and Big Tree in their trial for the 1871 Warren Wagon Train Massacre (seven teamsters killed), which was held in Jacksboro, the first time Indians were tried in state civil courts. The chiefs were convicted and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted, and they were sent to the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville and later released.