While spending a few days on Lake Martin in 1952, Hank Williams wrote a song about a poor, lonesome wooden Indian. The Indian, whose heart was made of knotty pine, fell in love with an Indian maid. While Hank was writing the song about Kaw-liga, ground was being broken on a new restaurant just across the road. The restaurant, complete with a wooden Indian, was opened in April of 1953. Later, it was operated as Cecil’s on the Lake at this site for 10 years. Following a fire, the restaurant reopened, and in 2000, Sinclair’s leased the location from Russell Lands for the next 12 years. When the lease came up for renewal in the fall of 2012, Russell Lands decided they’d like to add the signature property to the company’s restaurant options, which already included SpringHouse and Catherine’s Market.