The area around McCulley Farms has a place in our history dating back to early man. Evidence of his existance can still be found in stone tools unearthed in plowed fields or near ponds or the Withlacoochee River. Points dating back to around 10,000 B.C. have been found here. During Hernando DeSotos expedition of inland Florida in 1539, his encounters with hostile natives in the Suwannee Valley area led to his troops defeating the natives, gathering up atleast 9 local chiefs and executing them. His expedition is said to have gone as far north up the Withlacoochee River as present day Valdosta, Georgia. The Spanish built a small mission nearby in the early 1600's. This was the site of an uprising against the Spanish led by the Chief of a local village. With the aid of the Georgia Creek and Cherokee, the British would later drive the Spanish and any remaining Natives out during the early 1700's. Some of the Creek and Cherokee remained in Florida. Spain again took control of Florida during the U.S. War for Independance in 1776. After the U.S. defeated the British, it would go on to purchase Florida from Spain. After Florida became a U.S. Territory conflicts with the settlers and Indians began. The Indians along with some escaped slaves would go on to form the Seminoles and all out war began as the settlers kept coming into the newly claimed territory. A Treaty in 1823 called for the Indians to move into the southern part of Florida. The peace was short lived as many villages refused to leave and the settlers kept coming. In 1836, Col. Daniel Bell received letter from Gov. Call to assemble a force of locals to defend Hamilton and Madison Counties against parties of Georgia Creeks trying to unite with the Seminoles. The local troops were successful in defending Hamilton and Madison Counties along the Withlacoochee River.

Sometime around 1860, Jacob and Rebecca Wells moved their family to Hamilton County from Clinch County Georgia. Jacob had served with the military during the Seminole Wars. Little else is known about their time in Florida.

Alexander G. Wells, son of Jacob and Rebecca, married Sarah Waters sometime around 1870 and built a little pine log home on a hilltop near an ancient Native American burial mound. Burial mounds are normally safe from the frequent flooding that occurs along the Withlacoochee River. This proved to be a good location as the river has yet to get closer than a nearby bottom. Alex and Sarah raised eleven children in the log cabin they called home nearly 50 yrs. He made homemade clay bricks from a clay pit and also worked the Yellow Pine forest collecting turpentine.

Two of their sons, Bradford and Will, built their homes nearby. Will died in a dispute with his father-in-law in 1909. He was shot off his horse as he road through the gate at Austin Herring's home. T.P. McCulley bought the forty acres that the home of Will Wells was located on in 1915. Alex sold the log cabin to Dan Kirkland around 1920 and moved to Madison County. Alex lost his eye sight to cataracts in his later years. He became one of the first successful patients of cataract surgery by Dr. Yates from Madison. Alex also donated the land the Wells Cemetery is located on. It is believed that some unmarked graves were already on the property. He died in 1936, and is buried along with his wife Sarah and two of their children and several grandchildren in the Wells Cemetery.

T.P. McCulley eventually purchased the log cabin from the Kirklands around 1930. It was inhabited by several families up until 1947. A crew of black men including Walter Scott lived there for several years working T.P. McCulley's turpentine trees. The Owen Johnson family had a brief stay as did the Edger Allen family. Boswell and Clydie Waters lived there for about a year. Their son Archie was born there in 1941. The last family to live in the Wells Cabin was Woodrow and Lillie Mae Waters in 1947. Their daughter Sharon was born there that year. Their oldest son Kenneth owns the Waters property we cross during the Withlacoochee Trail Ride. Younger children Sherry and Dale own the Waters Camp.

The Wells Cabin was used by for tobacco storage by its current owner T.C.McCulley, up until 1973 when he gave up tobacco farming for raising poultry. The restoration of the Wells Cabin began in 1999 along with the first Withlacoochee Trail Ride. It has since been visited by 100's of trail riders and revisited by members of the Wells family and their descendants from across the USA.