Coltharp, one of Houston County's important early communities, was settled at this site in the 1850s by pioneer settlers including Eli and Eliza Jane Coltharp, William and Rhodey Conner, Jacob and Rhoda Gregg, Silas and Sarah Gregg, L.B. (Bride) and Frances Conner John, and Thomas J. Payne. A frame school-house and Masonic lodge hall, a church, and numerous stores and houses once stood here. In the late 1880s, the economy turned from cotton and corn to timber. Bypassed by the railroad, Coltharp declined by 1925 as residents left for nearby sawmill towns.