"Faith Rock" two hundred yards down the river is where Andrew Hunter in 1781 escaping from David Fanning, Tory, rode Fanning's horse, Red Doe, down the rock into the river and to safety. — — Map (db m172035) HM WM
In 1782, captured by Col.
Fanning & loyalists, Andrew
Hunter escaped by riding his
mare down this steep bluff
and jumping into Deep River. — — Map (db m233999) HM
With its headwaters beginning north of here near High Point and Jamestown, the Deep River flows 125 miles through rolling Piedmont hills past many forming mill towns. The Deep joins the Haw River in Chatham County, becoming the Cape Fear River, . . . — — Map (db m172038) HM