[4] Some 20 miles (32 km) east of Pinnacle on State Route 1186 is the Rock House,[5] the remains of a massive four-story stone structure with three-foot-thick walls built in 1770 by Capt.

Martin served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and as presiding judge of Stokes County court for over 30 years.

[6] The house was built by slaves using local flint stones, with a fireplace large enough to roast an ox and stuccoed white plaster on the exterior, and was used as a blockhouse by early settlers.

[11] Col. Jack Martin saw action at the battles of Chestnut Ridge, Surrey County, Colsons, Old Fields, Alamance and Guilford Courthouse.

[12] One of the oldest structures in Stokes County and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, the house burned in 1890, and only the great rock walls remain.