In an article entitled “Great Falls of Neuse River: Important to Capitalists” and published in The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina)[4] on Friday, December 25, 1846, Mr. Newsom notes “The water power at this place is immense, embracing from head to foot a fall of upwards of thirty feet, and sufficient to run any amount of machinery that might be desired”.

A notice was published by Wesley Jones, Trustee, in The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina) on January 29, 1840,[5] advertising the sale of "that valuable plantation belonging to the said Perry, lying in the county of Wake on the Neuse River, containing, about two thousand acres, on which is an excellent Saw and Grist Mill."

In 1981, Falls Dam was completed, flooding Possum Track Rd and dividing the community in half.

[8] The Falls of the Neuse Manufacturing Company was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Falls Lake Dam is in the community, as well as the beginning to the Neuse River Greenway.