NC Gazetteer

Deep Run

Also known as: Red Town
A town in Lenoir County
… town in SW Lenoir County. Inc. 1925. Est. in the 1880s when Ira D. Sparrow and Ike Stroud opened a turpentine distillery and built several stores at the site. A Baptist church erected there about 1850 is still in use. For a time, the place was nicknamed "Red Town" because a number of the earliest houses were painted red.