"Down N.C. 150 in Rockingham County is a 200-year-old house with gold buried in the backyard.

“That’s 'supposedly,’ ” Brianne McAlister, the sales and marketing director of High Rock Farm homestead, says with a twinkle in her eye.

If so, it hasn’t been found on the grounds of the Federal-styled house — built circa 1808 by Joseph McCain, the great-great-great grandfather of U.S. Sen. John McCain.

The McCain house, which doubled as a tavern, sat along a major stagecoach trail between Washington, D.C., and Georgia and a stone’s throw from skirmishes leading up to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

The Greensboro area is full of houses connected to American history, although years later, they sit without much fanfare in neighborhoods or along quiet country roads.

“If the walls could talk we’d know this wonderful history that’s mostly been lost,” said Rockingham County historian Bob Carter."

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Greensboro News & Record (7/10/2011)