Several photos of the remains of Farish's lock and dam on the Deep River were shared with us by Bryan Garland.

Farish's lock and dam is one of several described in The Story of the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company, by Wade Hadley. According to that publication, Farish's was located on the Deep River below the mouth of Big Buffalo Creek and about seven miles above the next dam (Cleggs). The dam was nine feet high and created a pond that extended up-river about nine miles to Haughton's mill at Gulf.

The site took its name from Thomas Farrish, who had a fish-trap dam nearby. It is also sometimes called 'The Coal Fields Lock' because the ponds at its upper end extended past the mines at Farmville and Egypt. More details in the attached clipping and map showing the locations of dams and locks from the book.

The entire publication, The Story of the Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Company, is available on our website:

https://chathamhistory.org/.../CapeFearDeepRiverNavigatio...

Thanks to Bryan Garland for sharing this info with us!

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