Cross Creek Cemetery Number One

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.