"Elston House", also known as the "Barta House" after the current owners, was posted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Allen Elston came from Pendleton District, South Carolina, shortly after the Creek Treaty of 1832 and purchased land from Sally-Kogee and Stim-Are-Oglee, two Creek Indians. He built the first brick structure in Tallladega County, a Federalist style house with mortise & tenon jointed beams and load-bearing walls of one and a half (three layer) bond thick handmade bricks. A wrought-iron fenced plot was placed nearby for family burials. Allen Elston was a member of the Salem Baptist Church, of which his wife Anne had been a founding member in November 1835. After his death in 1868, his daughter Caroline Elston Remson took possession of the property. It remained in the family until almost the turn of the century. The current owners, who are the second occupant-owners, started restoration in 1972 with original material and means. Information for this description was taken from a pamphlet provided by the owners and "Pioneer Talladega, Its Minutes and Memories"", by Wellington Vandiver, Alabama Historical Quarterly, XVI, No. 1, 1954.

The original cemetery gate was embossed "Allen Elston 1860". This cemetery was listed in "Talladega County, Alabama Tombstone Inscriptions of All Known Cemeteries 1700's to 1987", Volume I, c. 1989 by Joseph W. and Francis Upchurch, The Gregath Co., Cullman, Alabama. In 1984 there were fifteen interments identified here, with the only unmarked one being that of the family patriarch, Allen Elston (1782-1868).

Independent research by the current owner and Find-A-Grave contributor Tommie Reeves Smith reflects the presence of an additional unmarked grave, that of James Marion Reeves (1823-1883). He was employed by the Elston family to live at Faith Manor and farm the land for a time prior to his death.