A flourishing town once stood here, settled before 1799. It served as a stage-coach relay, a shipping center for cotton traffic by boat to Charleston, and a busy point on the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad from 1852 to 1872, with the station 1 mile southeast. It was noted for its taverns, horse-racing, games of ball-alley, and cock-fighting. Union troops raided it in 1865, and the railroad abandoned it in 1872 in favor of Wedgefield.