Cross Creek Linear Park

Our Pathway to the Future

1. Cool Spring

Cool Spring is located on the south bank of Cross Creek, which winds its way through downtown Fayetteville. The spring was the primary soucre of water first for Native Americans and subsequently for the ...

San Buenaventura Mission Cross

Restored September 9, 1912

by

The Alice M. Bartlett Club

of San Buenaventura, California,

to take the place of the Mission Cross erected

on this spot by the Franciscan Missionary

Padre Junipero Serra 1782

Marker can be reached from Father Serra Cross when traveling west.

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Gibbs Crossroads

Crossroads of War

Places once prominent in Tennessee’s antebellum transportation routes are sometimes almost forgotten places today. This road intersection was of significant strategic value in fighting the war in Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland region. During the Civil War, countless soldiers and ...

De Anza Crossing of the Santa Ana River

1775 and 1776

On January 1, 1776, the first party of colonists to come overland to the Pacific Coast crossed the Santa Ana River south of this marker and camped between here and the river. Recruited in the presidios of Sonora, ...

One More River to Cross

May 24 - 26, 1864

From the gun pits served by McIntosh’s artillery battalion, you can easily see the natural strength of the Confederate position. The repulse of Ledlie’s brigade served as a warning to Grant that Lee was still on ...

Cross Creek Cemetery

Confederate Burial Grounds

This is the oldest public cemetery in Fayetteville, begun in 1785. Mrs. Anne K. Kyle, who served as a nurse in the hospital here during the Civil War, established the Confederate Burial Ground soon after Union Gen. William ...

Hall’s Cross Roads

At intersection of Old Post Road (established 1666) and Bush Neck Road (1670) were a tavern and relay point for stagecoaches in 18th Century. In 1835 nearby stop on Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad was named for Aberdeen, Scotland, birthplace ...

Old Mill Crossing

Last known place where horses

drank and forded the river.

Dedicated to the memory of our fathers.

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Cross Roads Church

One tenth mi. W. at the intersection of the old Dallas-Acworth & Burnt Hickory rds. -- a key point of Federal military operations at New Hope Church and Dallas. May 25 - June 5, 1864.

Hardee’s & Hood’s A.C. [CS] ...

The Betsy Ross Flag

This flag, commonly referred to as "The Betsy Ross Flag," was adopted June 14, 1777 (Flag Day). The Continental Congress on this day resolved "That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes alternating red and white; that the ...