NC Gazetteer

Lindley's Mill

A mill in Alamance County
… on Cane Creek in S central Alamance County, a short distance W of Sutphin. The site of a battle on September 13, 1781, in which John Butler's Whigs failed to rescue Governor Thomas Burke from David Fanning's Tories. The first gristmill there was erected in 1756 by Thomas Lindley.