At the end of this road stood a camp opened in 1946 by the S.C. New Homemakers of America, an organization for African American girls studying home economics under the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act. Founded in 1933 and chartered in 1942, New Homemakers S.C. had previously operated a camp in Vance, S.C. Each summer, hundreds of students from across S.C. visited the thirty-two-acre camp for recreation, education, and demonstrations. When it opened, the camp had eighteen buildings and a pond for fishing and swimming. In 1956, it was named for Mattie E. Pegues, a teacher trainer at S.C. State College and founder of New Homemakers S.C.