[2][3] Boats ascended the Big Black River to Beatties Bluff, which had a post office, court house, and other buildings made of hewn logs.

Slaves there were tortured to extract information, which led to the arrest and quick execution of two itinerant white men.

[7][8] When Beatties Bluff was replaced a second time as the county seat, it immediately lost businesses and residents to the new judicial center.

In 2000, Nissan Motor Company began construction of a vehicle assembly plant in nearby Canton.

As part of the infrastructure, a site just west of the old town was selected in 2001 for the construction of the Beatties Bluff Wastewater Treatment Facility, capable of processing 8,000,000 US gal (30,000,000 L) of water per day.