Dennis Harrison Zorn was born in 1843 at Lodi, Barbour County, Alabama. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered service in the 15th Alabama Infantry, lost an arm at Cold Harbor in 1864, and was sent home, where he raised a company of soldiers known as Capt. Zorn's Alabama Reserves, which was attached to the 63rd Alabama Infantry. In 1868, he married his first cousin, Nancy Caroline Zorn. In politics, he was one of the few Republicans in Henry County during a period of Democratic domination of the South. Both Capt. and Mrs. Zorn died in 1899 and were buried near Lodi. Circa 1880, Capt. D.H. Zorn settled here on a sizeable plantation where he operated a legal, bonded whiskey distillery, with whiskey shipped in volume on barges from Zorn's Landing on the Chattahoochee River. Joe Lovett was the still foreman. The Zornville post office was established in 1883 and operated until 1904, with W.L. Pelham as the last postmaster. Zorn also operated a mercantile, cotton gin, gristmill, and other enterprises, along with bee hives, vineyards, orchards, a cheese processing facility, and his farming interests, and he practiced folk medicine and was known to many as "Doc Zorn."