The region consists of the census-designated places of Bret Harte, Shackelford, and Bystrom; as well as the county "islands" amidst them.
Brian Wesley Shackelford (born August 30, 1976 in McAlester, Oklahoma) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
Shackelford was cinematographer for the film crew of Clyde E. Elliott, Charles E. Ford and James Dannaldson, which shot some 260,000 feet of film on the lower reaches of the Amazon River in Spring 1942.
James Shackelford died in the fall of 1907 at his summer home in Port Huron, Michigan.
Shackelford was born in Richlands, North Carolina, the descendant of an early Virginia family which had settled at Shacklefords, Virginia.