The Altahama River bordered Long County and served as a boundary between Indians and early settlers. During the Revolutionary War, Fort Telfair at Beard's Bluff provided safety for colonists. Frontiersmen earned a living cutting trees, fastening logs together, floating them down the Altahama to Darien, selling them, and walking 40 miles home. By the mid 1840's a railroad had arrived in Johnson's Station, later renamed Ludowici. From 1904-1914 William Ludowici used local clay to manufacture roofing tiles at a plant on Factory Hill, and in appreciation of money contributed for a new school, the town was renamed. After 1910 Ludowici's downtown grew into a row of storefronts on this street. Fire destroyed the block in the 1970's. The 1990's brought population growth and the completion of a new school, with a bright future promised for the county's citizens.