Macay's Mill

… an early Rowan County landmark. It was used as a recruiting place for soldiers during the Revolutionary War as well as a point of discharge. It was owned for many years by Judge Spruce Macay, who taught Andrew Jackson law in Salisbury. The mill, on Grants Creek in the SE section of the county, was built by Thomas Frohock and later sold to Macay. The mill was used until World War I, although the millpond was drained about 1870 because of fever epidemics. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Frohock Mill.