Pinarea, the plantation owned by soldier, statesman, and manufacturer Paul Quattlebaum (1812-1890), was a mile east. Quattlebaum was a captain in the Seminole War and a brigadier general in the South Carolina militia by 1843. He was a state representative from 1840 to 1843, a state senator from 1848 to 1852, and a delegate to the Secession Convention and signer of the Ordinance of Secession. He is buried in the cemetery at Pinarea. Near here, the Quattlebaums operated a sawmill, flour mill, and rifle factory. The mills were both powered by Lightwood Knot Creek. The sawmill had a turbine wheel and circular saw. The rifle factory, founded by Paul's father John (1774-1853), was leased to the Confederate government to make percussion rifles.