A ferry on the Wateree River at a point about 4 mi. west was in operation as early as 1775. In 1808, ferry rights were granted to Thomas Starke, Jr. and Austin Ford Peay, who died in 1841, planters with property in Fairfield and Kershaw Districts, and Peay received ferry rights for another seven years in 1825. Peay served in the S.C. House between 1812 and 1831 and in the S.C. Senate between 1832 and 1839. By 1820, the road east from the Wateree River to Liberty Hill was known as Peay's Ferry Road. In early 1865, elements of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federal army crossed at the ferry on their way to Camden and Cheraw. In 1919, when the Wateree Power Co. completed a dam across the Wateree River, the ferry site and most of the road were flooded, and this is the only extant portion of the old road.