Celebrate Fayetteville: Exploring the Greater Fayetteville Region

Religion has a rich history in Fayetteville and Cumberland County. The following houses of worship
in Fayetteville and Cumberland County have been important to the fabric of the community.
D U N N ’ S C R E E K
Q U A K E R M E E T I N G
Dunn’s Creek Quaker Meeting on Highway
87 was the first known place of worship in
the Fayetteville and Cumberland County area.
It was established about 1746. Early Quaker
settlers made it to the Cape Fear River Valley
in the 1730s. Founding member Richard
Dunn led the church, which was associated
with Eastern Quakers and later the Western
Quarter in 1760. The church also later became
associated with Cane’s Creek Meeting in
Alamance County. A marker on Highway 87
recognizes the meeting house.
S T . J O H N ’ S
E P I S C O P A L C H U R C H
In the early nineteenth century, a group of
citizens, with the leadership of John Winslow,
persuaded Reverend Bethel Judd to move to
Fayetteville for the sake of establishing an
Episcopal church. Work on the church began
in 1817. A communion service was held in
1824, featuring coin silver spoons. The
church was destroyed by the 1831 fire.
Reverend Jarvis Buxton, the new rector,
returned from a northern trip with a bell from
another Episcopal church in Troy, New York,
and over $7,000. A new gothic style church
was built and then consecrated in 1833.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church.
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