[3] Shortly after the Civil War the village was populated entirely by African Americans, when it was known as Egypt, and then as Bethel.

[5] Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Earlysville was also noted as hosting the Thanksgiving Union Worship Service with Rev.

Ward, pastor of Chatman Grove Baptist Church, Eastham delivering the sermon.

[5] Other congregations joining this service were Evergreen at Proffit and Free Union of Stony Point.

The historian, Claude Hall, author of Abel Parker Upshur, was born in Proffit, and procured three degrees from the University of Virginia.