{"nrhp_refnum":"98001209","name":"Cross Creek Cemetery Number One","other_names":["Old Cross Creek Cemetery"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of N. Cool Spring and Grove St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayetteville","county":"Cumberland County","state":"NC","lat":35.05486470400007,"lon":-78.87277788399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-09-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Art"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cross Creek Cemetery Number One is a 4.98-acre public cemetery on the wooded banks of Cross Creek in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was established in 1785 when James Hogg deeded land to the town for use as a burial place.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is one of a small number of town cemeteries in the state established in the eighteenth century, with statewide significance for social history because of the notable local and state figures buried there. It also argues the cemetery has statewide significance for funerary sculpture, holding the premier collection of gravestones cut by Scottish stonecutter George Lauder, and it contains signed antebellum markers by stonecutters from several states.","narrative":"Cross Creek Cemetery Number One, a public burying ground in Fayetteville, was deeded to the town by James Hogg in 1785 and expanded in 1833 under the will of John Eccles, who required the northern section to be laid out in small lots on the plan of the New Haven graveyard. Its roughly 1,170 gravemarkers range from a 1786 slate discoid headstone to a 1964 marker, and include ledgers, box tombs, table-tombs, obelisks and headstones. The cemetery holds the premier collection of stones cut by Scottish stonecutter George Lauder, who operated a marble yard in Fayetteville from 1845 until his death in 1888. The graves include early merchants, clergymen, militia captains, a federal judge, a navy secretary and a former acting governor of North Carolina. The first Confederate monument in North Carolina, erected in December 1868, stands at the eastern edge of the grounds. The cemetery is also valued for its brick retaining wall along Cross Creek and its historic burial record.","period_of_significance":"1785-1948","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.329979-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7198/47719852/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/98001209.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001209/a514fb0e51-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001209/a514fb0e51-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Gerry Dincher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cross_Creek_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerry Dincher</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cross_Creek_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99000779","name":"Fayetteville Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/fayetteville-downtown-historic-district-99000779/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719852","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Creek_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5188279"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cumberland-county/cross-creek-cemetery-number-one-98001209/"}