High Rock

… former community and post office in SE Rockingham County on Haw River. Mentioned in local records as early as 1754; mill operated there from as early as 1753 until the 1920s, when the dam was broken. Gov. William Tryon camped there, 1771; Generals Cornwallis and Greene camped there during the Revolutionary War. The name survives as applied to a local farm and brick house built about 1807.