China Grove was the birthplace of the Reverend Jeremiah John Snow (1836–1892), a son of the third James Snow who lived there. He entered the Methodist Conference in 1863 and served as a chaplain in the Third Regiment, South Carolina Troops, in the Civil War. Later he was a circuit-riding minister, and his grave is at Union Church. Located on the Old Stage Road to Indiantown near its junction with Britton’s Ferry Road, China Grove was for many years the home of the Snow family. The eighteenth century plantation house has been restored, and its construction is attributed to James Snow (1730–1793), whose grandfather, Dr. Nathaniel Snow, came to South Carolina in 1697.