Patterson Mill

Historical marker location:

1317 Yadkin River Road, Lenoir, North Carolina

( Marker is on Yadkin River Road (County Route 1560) 0.3 miles north of North Carolina Highway 268, on the right when traveling north.)

Struck by Stoneman's Raiders. Stoneman's Raid.

In the 1960s, North Carolina was a center of the civil rights movement, with Greensboro being the site of the first sit-in protests in the country.