The community was the location of the Rolling Hills Asylum.
Rolling Hills Asylum, originally called the Genesee County Poor farm, was established in the winter of 1826.
This location was formerly a stage coach tavern before the Genesee county board of supervisors bought the property and established the poor farm on December 4, 1826.
A poor farm, or poor house, was an institution built by a government or charitable organization to house and maintain orphans, widowed women and their children, the disabled, the mentally ill, and minor criminals.
There was a shop on location where jams and pastries were made; even a shop where coffins were made to sell for the individuals' own profit.