History

 

The land surrounding the Hurt area was originally part of a land grant made by King George II to Benjamin Clements in 1741.  Clements resided here at Clement Hill where gun powder was made during the Revolutionary and Civil wars.

Major John L. Hurt supervised the gun powder production in the Civil War.  He married into the Clement family and became owner of the plantation.  He left the estate to his nephew and namesake John L. Hurt, Jr.  When the nephew died in 1964, he willed the lands west of route 29 to the town of Hurt on the condition it be incorporated within three years.  The town was incorporated in 1966 and thus received the land.

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