Longwood is an unincorporated community in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

Zion Missionary Baptist Church is an important part of this community, founded in 1886 over Butler's Mill Pond under an oak tree.

A traveling photographer stopped by the store to deliver prints to a prominent local family.

Jinx Long saw a photo of Bessie Lee Butler and announced, "That's the woman I'm going to marry."

It laid out a settlement nearby for its workers, on streets and avenues with names such as "Peachtree" and "Sunset", and called the community Long's Wood: after the family who had sold the land.

The community thrived as workers began to move in, hoping for steady work and a good paycheck.

The stores stayed open and Jackson Brothers sold the newly cleared acreage for farmland.