Established during reconstruction period on land given by D.H. Fields, local merchant for whom community and cemetery were named, and by J.W. Day, Confederate Veteran. Burial place of early settlers of area and their descendants, including . . . — — Map (db m169385) HM
Settlers began arriving in this vicinity prior to the Civil War. In the early 1870s Druey Holland Field (1809-72) and his wife Caroline (Perry) (1837-76) opened a general store in the area, and the small agricultural settlement that soon developed . . . — — Map (db m169390) HM