Old Carolina was a freshwater port on the Trinity River, located at the mouth of Carolina Creek halfway between Duncan's Crossing and Cincinnati. Adolphus Sterne, a resident of Nacogdoches, noted in his diary on April 21, 1839, that a sawmill was being built at the new community of Carolina. “Lumber sell at $40 pr M” probably means that cut lumber was selling at $40 per thousand rough feet. Huntsville and Walker County notes that “old” Carolina, located at the mouth of Carolina Creek on the Trinity River, was the location of the water-powered Cole's Mill. It was probably a multi-function facility: ginning cotton, sawing lumber, and grinding corn. The coming of the International & Great Northern through Riverside resulted in Old Carolina becoming a ghost town.