During the colonial era, the Boundary House, on the S.C.-N.C. line 1.3 mi. southeast, served as both a private residence and a public house. In 1775 Isaac Marion, who died in 1781 and was the eldest brother of future partisan leader Gen. Francis Marion, lived there. On May 9, 1775, after Isaac Marion received news of the Battle of Lexington, Mass., he forwarded the dispatch to the Committee of Safety in Little River.