The first recorded Native Americans in the area were the Choctaw, who had a village named Panti on Ponta Creek near the present site of Lauderdale.

[5] A resort was then built at the mineral springs and included a two-story, 300 foot long hotel with surrounding cottages.

[4] Jefferson Davis, Octavia Walton Le Vert, and other notable people attended the springs for gatherings and political events.

[6] During William Tecumseh Sherman's Meridian campaign, the 32nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment burned Lauderdale Springs.

[9] After the Civil war, the resort grounds were used by the Mississippi Baptist Convention as the Home for Confederate Orphans.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 2.9 square miles (7.4 km2), all of it recorded as land.