THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1963
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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HISTORIC TAVERN — This artist’s sketch
was made from an old photograph of historic
Rcimsey Tavern at Lockville. The tavern was
used as headquarters for British General Com-
wallis for two days during his retreat after the
battle of Guilford Courthouse. Ramsey’s mill
was located at the foot of the bluff, on Deep
River,
EVENTS OF DEEP RIVER AREA RECALLED
8 Old Millstones Recovered
By DICK BYRD
Eight millstones, One of which
is thought to date back to the
American Revolution, have been
retrieved from their resting place
at the site of historic Ramsey’s
Mill on Deep River near Mon
cure and presented by Carolina
Power & Light Company to the
State Department of Archives
and History.
Upstream from the location of
the millstones. Deep River forms
the boundary between Lee and
Chatham Counties and then be
comes a portion of the boundary
between Moore County and Lee,
in this county’s northeast corner.
Continuing upstream, the course
of the river winds across the
northern part of Moore and turns
north into Randolph at Howard’s
Mill, proposed location of one of
the flood control dams advocated
by the Army Engineers.
The stones were excavated by
CP&L crews at the request of
Chatham and Lee County histori
ans. They were located almost
within the shadow of the new
U. S. Highway 1 bridge that
spans Deep River near the point
at which it joins the Haw to form
the Cape Fear River.
It was here on March 22, 1781,
that British General Charles
Marquis Cornwallis, beating a
hasty retreat from General Na
thaniel Greene after the battle of
Guilford Courthouse, camped
two days while his engineers
built a temporary bridge over the
river.
Cornwallis made his headquar
ters at Ramsey’s Tavern on a
knoll overlooking the river.
Troops numbering some 2,000
camped in nearby Glascock Field
and for two days were harassed
by musket fire from Whig snipers
holed up in the old Clegg House
nearby.
Several Killedi
History relates that several of
the British troops were killed
before Cornwallis left the area
and continued his retreat to Wil
mington.
The origin of Ramsey’s Mill is
lost in history, but it occupied a
place of prominence at the time
of the Cornwallis episode. It and
the tavern nearby had been built
by Col. Ambrose Ramsey, court
justice and reportedly one of the
richest men in Colonial North
Carolina.
Its location was ideal for its
day, being at the confluence of
the tributaries forming the Cape
Fear, which already was a water
route inland to Campbellton
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MRS. JANE STRUTHERS
Mrs. Struthers
Returns To CP&L
Mrs. Jane Struthers has re
turned to Carolina Power &
Light Company as home service
representative in the Sanford
District, it was announced this
week by F. Crom Lennon, San
ford District manager.
Mrs. Struthers succeeds Miss
Betty Rose Frazier, who recently
resigned the post to be married.
Mrs. Struthers had held the local
opposition seven years prior to
leaving the company last spring.
Lennon said Mrs. Struthers
will be working with home
makers, civic groups, with build
ers and appliance dealers in pro
motion of “electric living.” Her
area includes Sanford, PittsDoro,
Southern Pines, Aberdeen and
Carthage.
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TAVERN SITE TODAY— Julian Lockhart Bryan of Moncure
stands on a knoll where the old Ramsey Tavern stood, overlook
ing Deep River. At riglit is the new U. S. Highway 1, north of
Sanford, and the bridge over the river. The Ramsey Mill was
located on the river just to the left of the bridge. Mr. Bryan
recalls the days when a steamboat plied Deep River between
Fayetteville and Lockville which was located not far from the
area pictured.
(Fayetteville) and beyond.
The locale has gone by many
names over the years: “Fork of
the Haw and Deep,” “Haywood-
borough,” “Haywood,” “Lock
ville” and finally “Moncure.”
In 1788 Haywood was a thriv
ing community. Convenient to
water and stage travel and al
most exactly in the geographic
center of the state, it was in the
running with six others for the
site of the State Capitol. An oak
grove near the present Haywood
Presbyterian Church had already
been considered for the capitol
grounds.
Outvoledi by Raleigh
As luck would have it, Hay
wood was outvoted by Raleigh
and lost the chance to become the
state capital.
But the community remained
a center of commerce. Here was
located a branch of the state pen
itentiary; iron works and several
mills flourished; the Raleigh and
Augusta Railroad (now Seaboard)
built a line through the commu
nity, its engineer. Captain Thom
as Jefferson Moncure, later giv
ing the community his name.
Perhaps the one thing that set
Haywood apart was the presence
of the navigation locks on the
nearby Deep, allowing river traf
fic to continue upstream to Car-
bonton and Cumnock.
According to historians, the
community became known as
Lockville during the Civil War
period, due to the commercial
importance of the locks. The
Cape Fear Navigation Company,
chartered in 1796, had built nav
igation facilities here and down
stream at Buckhorn on the Cape
Fear.
The old Ramsey Mill was oper
ated during the Civil War by J.
A. Parham, who was relieved of
his military duty due to his im
portant occupation as supplier of
meal and flour for Confederate
troops.
Following the war, John Bar
ringer, born Johannes Behringer
in Germany, came to the region
and bought the Bland Mill on
Haw River. Two weeks later his
mill was destroyed by flood
waters.
Barringer moved to the Deep
River and operated a mill there,
later building a three-story brick
roller mill near the Ramsey Mill
site.
Damaged by Flood
The old Ramsey Mill was bad
ly damaged by flood waters in
1901 and fell into disuse. The
millstones, one remaining from
its Revolutionary War operation
and others reportedly shipped
from France during the Civil
War era, sank deeper into the
silt of the mill’s tailrace, where
they were foimd and excavated
by CP&L crews.
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