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Churches and Other Religious Institutions

• Cape Fear Baptist Church  Constituted in 1756 as Particular Baptist. Stephen Hollingsworth, first minister. Present (1859) building 2 mi. E     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Dunn's Creek Quaker Meeting  Started about 1746; joined yearly meeting, 1760; discontinued about 1781. Site and cemetery are 2.5 miles S.E     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• First Presbyterian Church  Organized in 1800. The original building, begun in 1816, rebuilt on same walls after fire of 1831, stands one block east     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• A Guide to Historic Churches in Cumberland County 
• MacPherson Church  Presbyterian. Founded by early Scottish settlers. Graves of Alexander MacPherson and T. H. Holmes, a Confederate general, 1 1/2 miles N     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Old Bluff Church  Presbyterian. Organized in 1758 by Rev. James Campbell. Present building erected about 1858. N.W. 1 mi     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Primitive Baptist Churches  Church and Family History Assistance     (Source: The Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage)

Histories of specific towns and townships

• Campbelton  Colonial river port, incorporated in 1762. Later merged with Cross Creek to form the town of Fayetteville     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Cross Creek  Colonial village and trading center, merged in 1778 with town of Campbelton and in 1783 renamed Fayetteville     (Source: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program)
• Cross Creek      (Source: North Carolina History Project)
• City of Fayetteville      (Source: North Carolina History Project)
• Town of Spring Lake Historical Information 

Library

• Cumberland County Library  Library History & Timeline

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