Back in the 1800’s what it was a large plantation, Scarborough House was located near the bustling community of Oak Grove. Little is known of the origins of Oak Grove. The community was never incorporated, and little remains now except a few of the oaks. The origins of the community may go back as far as the eighteenth century when stage lines ran through this area carrying passengers to Tarboro, Waynesborough (and later Goldsboro), and Martinsboro (later Greenville). Ammons Tavern (possibly a corruption of Amerson’s Tavern, Amerson being a local landowner), about one- half a mile north of the Scarborough House furnished amenities and lodging to travelers on the stagecoach route. The location of Oak Grove is said to have been equidistant from the three county seats, and therefore was an ideal stopping place on all the stage lines. A number of dwellings and a post office were also said to have been a part of the small community. In 1830 the shift of the community southwards became evident with the establishment of White Oak Baptist Church just south of the Scarborough House. When the plank road from Wilson to Greenville was completed in 1835, the focus of the community became the road, and by 1864 the name “Saratoga” was in use although it was not until the l870s that the town was incorporated.