Location
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Coordinates: 35.8846, -79.4406.
Type: Sight
Tour: Regulators
County: Alamance
Partial
The coordinates take you to the remains of Dixon’s Mill. Though not marked, there is a grassy parking area to the right (if heading south from Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road) just before the bridge over Cane Creek. If you have a larger vehicle, you may want to continue across the bridge, turn left on Drama Road, pull off immediately, and park on the wide shoulder. If there, watch for traffic as you walk back to the mill, as there is no shoulder on the bridge.
Context
Badly damaged in its victory at the Battle of Guilford Court House in today’s Greensboro, the British Army under Lt. Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis is withdrawing to Cross Creek (now Fayetteville) to recover.
Situation
British/Tory
The army remained at the battlefield two days. Upon leaving it first camped at Bell’s Mill (north of Asheboro), and then Walker