Built as early as 1845, as many as twenty-four brick cabins stood here as housing for enslaved workers, of which eight remain. Originally housing two enslaved families, each cabin was constructed with locally made brick, dirt floors, chimneys, porches, and gutters to capture rainwater for household use. Upon Emancipation, the cabins were converted to single-family homes for sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and day laborers. Residents personalized their homes by adding rooms and windows and fencing yards. The community was home to seven families in 1939 when a tornado damaged the cabins. Electricity was installed by the 1940s, though residents still had no running water, and the last family moved away in the early 1970s.