In a town laid out in 1740 and named for Landgrave Edmund Bellinger, a brick Chapel of Ease for St. Bartholomew's Parish was built here in 1758. The vestry reported the chapel unfit for use in 1786, and in 1810 it fell in ruins. A new chapel built in 1819 burned in 1852, was rebuilt in 1854, and was wrecked by Union troops in 1865.