Cross Creek Cemetery

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.This cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Fayetteville.{{Cite web | author =Ruth Little and Michelle Kullen| title =Cross Creek Cemetery Number One| work = National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory | date =May 1998| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/CD0206.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | access-date = 2014-08-01}}

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. The group then raised the funds to erect a Confederate Soldiers Monument in Cross Creek, the first Confederate monument in North Carolina; it was dedicated on December 30, 1868.

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.

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

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;Politicians

• J. Bayard Clark, United States Representative (1929–49)
• James C. Dobbin, United States Secretary of the Navy (1853–57)
• Wharton J. Green, United States Representative (1883–87)
• Edward J. Hale, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (1913–17)
• John G. Shaw, United States Representative (1895–1897)
• Charles Manly Stedman, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina (1885–89) and United States Representative (1911–30)
• Warren Winslow, Speaker of the North Carolina Senate (1854–55) and United States Representative (1855–61)

;Others

• Robert Adam (1759–1801), merchant and first captain of the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry
• Elliot Daingerfield (1859–1932), artist

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{{cite web| url= http://fcpr.us/facilities/administrative/contact-us | title= Contact Us | publisher= Fayetteville-Cumberland County Parks & Recreation| access-date=2017-01-12}}

{{cite web| url= http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/09/17/1120778 | title= Cross Creek Linear Park: New trail section a respite in middle of Fayetteville | date= September 17, 2011| publisher= The Fayetteville Observer| access-date=2011-09-22}}

{{cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1aMlAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA724 | page=724 |title= Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina | author= North Carolina General Assembly | author-link= North Carolina General Assembly | year= 1915 | publisher= E.M. Uzzell and Company, State Printers and Binders | access-date=2011-09-13|quote= 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.}}

{{cite book | url= https://archive.org/details/historicsouthern00emeriala | page=[https://archive.org/details/historicsouthern00emeriala/page/241 241] |title= Historic Southern Monuments | first= Bettie Alder Calhoun |last= Emerson | year= 1911 | publisher= Neale Publishing Company | oclc= 263023092| access-date=2011-09-13}}

{{cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EdKLfhkJIWEC&pg=PA19| page=19 |title= Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present | first= Samuel A'Court |last= Ashe| year= 1906 | publisher= C. L. Van Noppen| volume= 4| access-date=2011-09-13}}

[http://www.visitnc.com/listings/view/56717 Cross Creek Cemetery I] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320094040/http://www.visitnc.com/listings/view/56717 |date=2012-03-20 }} from the North Carolina Department of Commerce

[http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nrlist.htm North Carolina Listings in the National Register of Historic Places] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130221847/http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/nrlist.htm |date=2012-11-30 }} from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office

{{cite web| url= http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/facts/Cumberla.htm| title= North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office Assistance to Cumberland County| date= December 31, 1999| work= North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office| publisher= North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources| access-date= 2011-09-22| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120402203504/http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/facts/Cumberla.htm| archive-date= April 2, 2012| url-status= dead}}

[http://ncmonuments.ncdcr.gov/MonList.aspx?qry=City&Name=Fayetteville North Carolina Civil War Monuments: Fayetteville] from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

{{cite web| title= Police Investigating Cemetery Vandalism | url= http://police.ci.fayetteville.nc.us/pressreleases.aspx?do=display&id=614201030437 | work= Press release | publisher = Fayetteville Police Department | date= June 14, 2010 | access-date=2011-09-22}}

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• [http://images.lib.ncsu.edu/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Cross+Creek+Cemetery+%28Fayetteville,+N.C.%29 Photographs of Cross Creek Cemetery] from the NCSU Libraries
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Category:Geography of Fayetteville, North Carolina

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Category:Confederate States of America cemeteries

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