In the 1870s, freedpeople from more than twenty families (Blakey, Cary, Flannagan, Gilmore, Harris, Magruder, and Solomon, among others) began acquiring small plots of land along present Georgetown and Hydraulic roads. Horace Solomon, whose four-acre property is recalled in the name Solomon Court, was notable for raising some of the largest and finest hogs in the county. Described in 1915 as the “thriving colored settlement” of Georgetown, the area today bears little resemblance to the rural scene of a century ago.