Beach Bluff was settled many years ago by a man named Hampton Weed.   Wayne County History Records,  "Mr. Weed built a mill at the place, and also sold goods around the 1840's. It was then the most important place  in the County.  At Beach Bluff the people would build flat boats and load them with pork and corn and float them down to New Orleans."

In the Wayne County Census of 1845 there were reported seventeen horse mu Is, two distilleries, one carding machine, one cotton gin, five saw mills, seven tanneries,  one steam mill for sawing and grinding, and four water  grist mills.

Jesse Lord had a saw and grist mill; Horatio P. Porter had a tannery and bark mill; Charles Wood had a water saw and grist mill; Abraham Martin had a horse mill; Alexander Ramsey, Sr., and Jesse Fly had each a horse mill, James Martin had a bark mill; Newberry Cline had a water saw and grist mill; George Campbell. Sr. had a horse mill.

John Kimmel had a distillery: David Wright had a horse mill; Mr. Wright had come from the State of New Jersey; settled in Wayne county in the year of 1819.  He settled and improved a farm three miles south of Fairfield. "He started the first tan yard in the county using a wooden trough, which in time he increased to 14 vats tanning all kinds of hides, even hog skins.

P. L. Funkhouser had a bark mill and engaged in shipment of produce on flat boats to New Orleans. Hiram Stats had a tannery; R. B. Slocumb, a horse mill; H. H. Cook, a tannery; James Harper, a carding machine and cotton gin; John Skelton, a horse mill; R. F. Jenkins,  horse mill; Walter Burch, a tannery; Enos Maulding, water saw and grist mill.   Able Dewitt and Francis Hayney had each a stump mill.

Daniel Gregory a horse mill; William Halloway, a horse mill; Moses Garrison a tannery;  Wesley Staton, a saw mill; Jonathan Whitson, a horse mill; C. L. Carter, John Bovee, James Cooper, and Benjamin each had a horse mill. Lewis Meyers had a distillery.