Summerfield

… community in N Guilford County. Inc. 1996. Alt. 881. Settled about 1769 by Charles Bruce, later a Revolutionary War patriot, and known as Bruce's Crossroads until 1812, when a post office was est. and the community was renamed in honor of evangelist John Summerfield (1798-1825). Site, according to tradition, of Revolutionary War skirmish between Lee and Tarleton; campsite of British army under Gen. Charles O'Hara of the Coldstream Guards, February 12, 1781.