Lockport

… community in SE Chatham County on Deep River W of Moncure. An earlier post office there was known as Lockville. Site of locks of Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Co.; Progress Energy has a small power plant there that uses the lock canal as a mill race. At Ramsey's Mill there, following the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781, the British general, Lord Cornwallis, built a bridge over Deep River.