The story of four generations of the Lindsay family in Guilford County, NC 1765 to 1870 and the location on Deep River that is the cockpit of activity from settlement to Regulation to Revolution. The family progresses from a multi-faceted agricultural center to merchant house,to entrepreneur to industrialist but in one branch is destroyed by the Civil War in terms of a single life of promises devastated. This is the story of a family and a location in North Carolina that connected with important moments and personalities in antebellum North Carolina. history