The massacre site, 3 miles west, is where 25 settlers or more were killed, 23 buried on site in a mass grave, several were kidnapped and 21-22 Cherokee died.

The present church, which replaced several earlier, was built in 1856.

A Patriot militia detachment, part of a larger contingent threatening Ninety-Six, clashed with and were overwhelmed at the Battle of Long Cane by a substantial, unanticipated force of British trained Regulars and Loyalists dispatched from Ninety-Six.