Baisden's Bluff Academy, located a short distance east of here near the river, was the main educational institution in McIntosh County in the early years of the 19th century. A boarding school operating year round, it enrolled members of prominent families from the county and adjoining areas. Mr. Linder served as principal, and General Francis Hopkins, Wm. A. Dunham, James Dunwoody, James Smith, and Jacob Wood were commissioners. In 1823 torrential rains washed the dormitory into the river, leaving a ravine that can still be seen, and the school never recovered.