The Badham House, a Neoclassical Revival house called "one of the finest" in South Carolina in 1920, was built in 1912 for Vernon Cosby Badham (1856-1947) and his second wife Leila Johnston. Badham, a native of North Carolina, moved to South Carolina in the 1880s and sold sawmill machinery in this area. In 1901 he built the Dorchester Lumber Company across the highway and on the Southern Railway. The sawmill, in operation from 1901 to 1938, cut 50,000 to 100,000 feet of timber a day, hauling it from the swamps by a narrow-gauge railroad, and employed 500 men at its peak. A large complex here included a company office, company store, worker housing, a school, and a church, and the post office active here from 1901 to 1945 was called Badham. Dorchester Lumber Company shut down during the Depression, and all that remains of the old mill across the highway is the brick ruin of the vault from the mill office.