In 1872 Samuel Barber and his wife Harriet, both former slaves, bought 42 1/2 acres here from the S.C. Land Commission, which had been established in 1869 to give freedmen and freedwomen the opportunity to own land. Samuel Barber, a well-digger while enslaved, became a farmer and minister after the Civil War. Harriet Barber received title to the land in 1879, and this one-story frame house was built about 1880. The Barber family has owned a major portion of this tract since Samuel and Harriet Barber purchased it in 1872. Their son Rev. John B. Barber, born in 1872, inherited the property in 1899 and was a schoolteacher and pastor of St. Mark and New Light Beulah Baptist churches. This house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.