The unincorporated community, with a currently unassuming reputation, had the county’s first brick school and was Northampton’s only stop off place for an American president. The citizen for whom the community is named, Margaret Bynum Jordan, is known for helping a slave escape to the North and her quilt hanging in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
Hunter's Funeral Home was established by Howard Hunter, Sr. in 1949. Howard, Sr. was the first African-American to serve on the Hertford County School Board.