Long Bluff, three-quarters of a mile east on the Great Pedee River, was the site of the first courthouse and jail for old Cheraws District in 1772. After the Revolution the town was known as Greeneville and remained the seat of justice until the formation of Darlington, Marlboro, and Chesterfield Districts, with circuit courts and elections conducted there for a while longer. At a Circuit Court held there on November 15, 1774, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence, the Grand Jury of Cheraws District denied Parliament's right to levy taxes on them and declared themselves ready to defend with their lives and fortunes the right to obey only those laws made by their own elected representatives.