From 1795 to 1865, this hill was home to a thriving African American farming community. The first settlers at the bottom of the road arrived in 1798 from MA: Samuel Peters, Hannah Lensemen, and her husband Prince Peters. Prince Peters served for 3 years during the American Revolution in Captain Silas Pierce's MA Line, 8th Co, 3rd MA Regiment, and Samuel Peters, 2nd volunteered at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812. By the end of the Civil War, this pioneering community at the bottom of the hill included at least six related families who cleared the land, joined the local Baptist church, maintained home manufactories, and exercised their voting rights at Freeman Meetings. Their descendants owned land here and contributed to the local economy of the hill until the late 20th century. At the top of the hill, Violet and Shubael Clark of CT arrived in 1795, and their farm grew to 175 acres extending into Huntington, while one son owned 100 acres nearby. During the 1850s-60s, the home of their daughter Almira and William Langley became a refuge for people escaping slavery. Three Langley brothers and a cousin fought in the MA 54th Regiment and the SC 33rd during the Civil War. Loudon Langley, born here about 1836, remained in SC after the war and represented Beaufort at the 1868 Constitutional Convention, and he and his brother Lewis are buried there in the National Cemetery. Just before the Civil War, the original Clark settlers had expanded to five related families, and many are buried in an abandoned cemetery at the top of the hill.