Summerfield School Gymnasium and Community Center, also known as Summerfield Rock Gym, is a historic gymnasium building located at Summerfield, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was built in 1938-1939 as part of a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project at a rural consolidated high school. It is a 1 1/2-story, Rustic Revival-style granite rubble stone building.
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The Battle of Summerfield was a skirmish in the area that today is Summerfield, North Carolina in present-day northern Guilford County, between Patriot forces under the command of Col. Henry Lee III and British forces of Banastre Tarleton on February 12, 1781. According to Patriot lore,
twenty British dragoons were killed and four captured without loss to Lee's cavalry except a bugler they had abandoned.
One month prior to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, the armies of Col. Otho Williams and Col. Henry Lee halted at the home of Charles Bruce. While Williams and Lee were dining, farmer Isaac Wright reported that British dragoons had been seen nearby. Williams ordered Lee to investigate and Lee dispatched Captain James Armstrong with a division of his men to the area. Wright's horse was too tired to return so Lee offered the horse of his bugler boy, 14-year-old James Gillis. But Lee allowed Gillis to follow the farmer's party on the tired horse.
The Patriot cavalry stumbled upon the British vanguard and raced back to warn Lee. Some British dragoons chased the fleeing Patriots and Gillis, with his tired horse, was overtaken and killed. Col. Lee ordered his men to return and rescue Gillis but they arrived too late. Lee's troops then charged and killed seven of the dragoons but British reinforcements led by Captain Cornet Miller arrived as the fighting intensified. After thirteen more British dragoons were killed, Captain Miller tried to escape but was captured by Lt. Stephen Lewis along with three of his men.
Upon their return, Lee reprimanded Lewis for not carrying out his orders to kill any prisoners. Miller was brought before Lee who blamed him for the death of Gillis, the bugler Lee had allowed into danger. Lee ordered his summary execution and told Miller to write his last words to his friends. However, the British Army was seen approaching and Lee retreated to Williams camp. Captain Miller was then escorted to Major General Nathanael Greene as a prisoner of war.
Today there are two memorials dedicated to James Gillis. One has been placed at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and another at the site of his death. There is also a state historical marker in Summerfield.
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Summerfield is a town in Guilford County, North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,951.
The town is largely regarded as a suburb of Greensboro and as development has grown, the town has slowly transformed from a rural farming area into a bedroom community primarily from Northern transplants. It features a town hall, along Oak Ridge Road, west of Battleground Avenue, as well as a shopping center east of Battleground Avenue and Auburn Road, located on the eastern portion of NC 150. Interstate 73 passes just west of the town's center, connecting with NC 150, and also connecting with US 158 in the northernmost part of the town.
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Whitsett Historic District is a national historic district located at Whitsett, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 38 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 5 contributing structures in the crossroads village of Whitsett. The contributing resources were built between 1894 and 1921, and developed around the Whitsett Institute, that operated from 1884 to 1919. Located in the district and separately listed is Holly Gate. Other notable buildings include the Queen Anne / Colonial Revival style "The Oaks", the John Rankin House, the Captain Dick House, the Wimbish-Tayler House, the Jefferson Lamb Houses, the Swift-Wheeler House, and the 1894 Charles T. Mason House and Dormitory.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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Summerfield Historic District is a national historic district located at Summerfield, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 33 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in the crossroads village of Summerfield. Notable buildings include the Henry Clay Brittain Store, the Ogburn Store, the two-story double-pile Greek Revival style Alexander Strong Martin House, and the Queen Anne style Henry Clay Brittain House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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Moores Creek is a 5.12 mi long 1st order tributary to Reedy Fork in Guilford County, North Carolina.
It has a small concrete-block rear addition dated to about 1955. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.