Bunker Hill served southern Berkeley County with three stores, six mills, and five churches.

Much of the land around Bunker Hill belonged to General Elisha Boyd, who built what amounted to an industrial village, with two mills, a brick-making operation, a cooperage, and a store on part of his Edgewood Manor plantation.

After General Boyd's death in 1841 his son John tried to develop the area as a town, selling some lots and building another store and a log house.

The most southern lots in the town were sold to African Americans, and represent an example of a segregated community in the post-Civil War period, becoming known as "Black Row.

"[2] Significant contributing buildings include: The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.