though quite small, snow camp is historically significant. herman husband, a leader in the regulator movement lived here. the regulator movement culminated in the battle of alamance prior to the revolutionary war. during the revolutionary war, battles were fought nearby at lindley's mill, clapp's mill, and at pyle's defeat. snow camp was also a site of early quaker settlement in north carolina, as friends from pennsylvania migrated to the cane creek valley in the mid-1700s and established the spring meeting at snow camp; several historic buildings clustered around the spring remain from that settlement.