This crossroads, long owned by the West family, is the junction of the Georgetown and Porter Bridge Roads, both of which appear on Robert Mills's 1825 Atlas of S.C. In early 1865 opposing forces camped nearby as Gen. M.C. Butler's Confederates attempted to slow the advance of Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federals toward N.C., and fought a brief skirmish here on February 25th. The boyhood home of Donald H. Holland, born in 1928, a Kershaw County lawyer and legislator, once stood 300 yards east. Holland, a graduate of the University of South Carolina law school, served as a state representative from 1951 to 1954 and from 1957 to 1964, as a state highway commissioner from 1964 to 1968, and as a state senator from 1969 to the present, serving as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to the present.