 Prior to the construction of the bridge, the area where Fury's Ferry Bridge is located used to be a Ferry Station called Fury's Ferry.The ferry was manual labor at first, which required a rope fastened to a pole on either side of the Savannah River pulled by a person or group of people.Peter Seymour, a deacon at Hopewell Baptist Church, was one of the manual labor operators of the flat boat that was used prior to the introduction of a motor engine flat boat.