Cross Creek Cemetery

Cross Creek Cemetery
Details
Established 1785
Location Fayetteville, North Carolina
Country  United States
Coordinates 35°3′32″N 78°52′17″W / 35.05889°N 78.87139°W
Type Public
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Cross Creek Cemetery

Cross Creek Cemetery Number One
Location Jct. of N. Cool Spring and Grove St., Fayetteville, North Carolina
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built 1785
Built by Lauder, George
Governing body Local
NRHP Reference # 98001209[1]
Added to NRHP September 25, 1998

Cross Creek Cemetery is a cemetery located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near a creek of that name that "meanders for more than a mile from downtown Fayetteville to the Cape Fear River."[2] It was established in 1785.[3] The cemetery is organized into five numbered sections and is managed by a cemetery office within Fayetteville-Cumberland County Parks & Recreation.[4]

History

The original section, known as Cross Creek Cemetery Number One was established in 1785 and expanded in 1833. It contains approximately 1,170 gravemarkers dating from 1786 to 1964.[5]

After the Civil War ended, the Ladies' Memorial Association of Fayetteville had all soldiers who had been killed in battle—along with those who had died and been buried in various nearby locations—interred (or re-interred) in Cross Creek Cemetery.[6] The group then raised the funds to erect a Confederate Soldiers Monument in Cross Creek, the first Confederate monument in North Carolina;[6] it was dedicated on December 30, 1868.[7]

In 1915, the Cross Creek Cemetery Commission was created via an act of the North Carolina General Assembly, providing for the maintenance of the cemetery.[8]

Cross Creek Cemetery #1 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September 1998 as a national historic district.[9][10] In June 2010, "more than fifty headstones were damaged and in disarray" in Cross Creek Cemetery #1, following a report of vandalism.[11]

James C. Dobbin.
Midnight Moon by Elliot Daingerfield, circa 1906.

Notable burials

Politicians
Others

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Cross Creek Linear Park: New trail section a respite in middle of Fayetteville". The Fayetteville Observer. September 17, 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  3. ↑ Cross Creek Cemetery I from the North Carolina Department of Commerce
  4. ↑ "Contact Us". Fayetteville-Cumberland County Parks & Recreation. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  5. ↑ Ruth Little and Michelle Kullen (May 1998). "Cross Creek Cemetery Number One" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Emerson, Bettie Alder Calhoun (1911). Historic Southern Monuments. Neale Publishing Company. p. 241. OCLC 263023092. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  7. ↑ North Carolina Civil War Monuments: Fayetteville from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
  8. ↑ North Carolina General Assembly (1915). Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina. E.M. Uzzell and Company, State Printers and Binders. p. 724. Retrieved 2011-09-13. H. B. 1541, a bill to be entitled "An act to create the Cross Creek Cemetery Commission to provide for the maintenance of a cemetery in the city of Fayetteville. and to amend chapter 30 of the Private Laws of 1S73-74." Passes its third reading by the following vote and is ordered sent to the Senate without engrossment.
  9. ↑ North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
  10. ↑ "North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office Assistance to Cumberland County". North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. December 31, 1999. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  11. ↑ "Police Investigating Cemetery Vandalism". Press release. Fayetteville Police Department. June 14, 2010. Retrieved 2011-09-22.
  12. ↑ Ashe, Samuel A'Court (1906). Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. Volume 4. C. L. Van Noppen. p. 19. Retrieved 2011-09-13.

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