Upstream:G Huffman Mill
Old Clapp Mill
Downstream:Alamance Cotton Mill on Big Alamance Creek
Shown by Spoon 1895.
This was apparently the location of the Battle of Clapp's Mill on March 2, 1781 between Col. Light Horse Harry Lee and Cornwallis's forces.
On March 5, 1781, Gen. Cornwallis had been camped at "Clapp's Mill" on Alamance Creek, presumably this site. Gen. Cornwallis's forces tried to cut Col. Otho Williams off from reuniting with his commander Gen. Nathanael Greene, who was at that time at Boyd Mill on the Reedy Fork by racing Williams to Weitzel Mill. Williams got to Weitzel's Mill first and fought a rearguard action retreating furhter north into Rockingham County and eventually regrouping with Gen. Green at the Iron Works Mill on Troublesome Creek.
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