Streets in Sneedsboro were laid out and named, and the town had a post office, school, inn, general store, and both a Methodist and Baptist church.

Poor economic conditions in North Carolina had forced many of Sneedsboro's residents to leave, and an epidemic of typhoid fever had also struck the town.

[3] During the Civil War, a large battalion of Union forces led by William Tecumseh Sherman crossed the Pee Dee River at Sneedsboro.

[2] Historian Mary Louise Medley wrote that "though the Pee Dee River was then at flood stage, they took the time to destroy everything of value around the once flourishing town".

[2][3] Some notable people buried in the cemetery include Charles Harris, a chairman of the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its first professor of mathematics, as well as John Hinson, a US Senator.