In 1760 Joseph Tiller received a grant for 100 acres on the Lynches River, including this crossroads. James Tiller operated a ferry across the river 1 mi. north before 1806, and beginning in 1830 he operated a toll bridge near the ferry on the Stagecoach or Camden Road. A post office opened at Tiller’s Ferry in 1838 with James Tiller as its first postmaster, and it closed in 1903. In 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman’s Federal army advanced northeast, Gen. John A. Logan’s XV Corps found its way blocked by a flooded Lynches River, camped and foraged nearby from February 25-March 2, then crossed into Darlington County. A skirmish on the other side of the river on February 26 cost Logan’s infantry and Gen. M.C. Butler’s Confederate cavalry a few minor casualties each.