After the Civil War, the rise of the textile industry spurred the growth of Rock Mills, and potteries were established in town. By 1900, these potteries produced utilitarian wares coated with traditional southern ash glaze, as well as salt glaze favored by northern potters and brown Albany Slip glaze that could be shipped in by railcar. From the 1890s into the years of the Great Depression, William "Will" Davis Pound owned and operated the largest pottery business in Randolph County at this location, and by 1903 his was the primary pottery shop in Rock Mills. The site includes a mound of broken pottery, ruins of a kiln, and a shop building built around World War I. Pound was also a landowner, landlord, and store owner. In the 1890s, Pittman Brothers Pottery operated near this site, with Martin R. Pittman as superintendent and his brothers David and Wesley as potters. James Lane, Dennis Perkins, a northerner, and Edward Rushton, a formerly enslaved potter, also worked for Pittman Brothers. At this site, Will Pound employed his sons Wilner and Denson along with potters including Jim, Earl, and Will Boggs, Ralph Phillips, W. J. Shepard, Watts Gladney, Wesley Pittman, Charley Brown, and Jesse Weathers. Jesse Weathers, the half-brother of W. D. Pound, was perhaps the most accomplished potter here; a part-time potter who also worked at times in the textile mill, he made pieces such as fancy shaving mugs and jugs encircled by snakes, and examples of his work are held by the Birmingham Museum of Art and the High Museum in Atlanta.