This old roadbed is the last extant portion of the Rutherford Road, which appears in Robert Mills's 1825 Atlas of the State of S.C. and was one of at least three historic roads in northern Spartanburg County named for Rutherfordton, county seat of Rutherford County, N.C., 20 miles northeast. The road was a significant route for travel, mail, and commerce until well into the twentieth century.