Bicycle Route 1 runs southwest from Richmond; this segment follows the entire length of SR 616 through Amelia County and passes through Deatonville.

[8] The latter reference likely was dated, however, since most of these "fourth class" postal facilities were closed in the early 1900s after the advent of rural free delivery.

[11][12] Deatonville lies along the route[13] followed by Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his army in their westward retreat during the Civil War, just days before the surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.

[17] During the early 20th century, the Rosenwald project was a collaborative effort that constructed thousands of facilities across the segregated South primarily to help improve the education of African American children.

The property, along with its associated structures, is among several sites in the Deatonville area that were studied in the 1990s for possible listing on the National Register of Historic Places.