Cane Creek Meeting House

Suffering for Peace

The Quakers (Society of Friends) were early anti-slavery supporters of the Underground Railroad. Once the war erupted and Alamance County residents chose sides, supporters of the Confederacy regarded the Friends as Unionists. Never attacked directly by their neighbors, ...

Cane Creek Friends Meeting Since 1751 / Abigail Overman Pike 170

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Cane Creek Friends Meeting Since 1751

The first Cane Creek Meetinghouse stood about two miles east on land belonging to John Stanfield. The first of four meetinghouses on this site was built in 1764 on land given by William Marshall. ...

Cane Creek Meeting

First Monthly Meeting of Friends in central North Carolina, 1751. Present building is on the original site.

Marker is at the intersection of West Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road and Pleasant Hill Church Road on West Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road.

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