This name was later changed to Indian Grove. Highway 89 East, on the Indian Grove Church Road. The Indians set up camp near a small creek which runs behind the home of Orby and Marie Johnson. This Native American group had a burial place on the hillside behind what is today the home of Clayton and Marlene Johnson. Thus, the settlement was appropriately named Indian Graves.
Legend has it that an Indian princess is buried here.
Present residents of the Indian Grove community like to think that their ancestors played an important part in the freedom we enjoy today. During the Revolutionary War, Surry County militia men fought the Tories on the hills of Chestnut Ridge. Their heroic efforts gave soldiers time to get here from Guilford and Rowan Counties. Education was very important in this settlement. Jonathan Benjamin Pittman taught school in the old Goodwyn Taylor home around 1820 or 1830.