Historic Churches

Marvin United Methodist Church was organized in 1873.

Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church was founded in 1860. The present sanctuary was built in 1982.

In April 1875, Reverends J.M. Beasley, R. Newton, and R.A. Moore organized a church and Sunday school with nineteen members.

Organized in 1758, Old Bluff Presbyterian Church is one of oldest Presbyterian churches in Cumberland County. This church along with Long Street Presbyterian and Barbecue Presbyterian Churches provided the Scottish population of the Upper Cape Fear Valley with longtime formal congregations. The adjacent cemetery is one of the oldest in the county. Many early Scottish settler and merchant families are buried there: including Colonel Alexander McAllister (a leading county patriot in the American Revolution), Farquhard Campbell and David Marshall (Carbine) Williams (invented the semi-automatic M1 Carbine rifle used in World War II). The present Greek Revival structure was built in 1858. This church still holds regular services.

St. Andrews was built in 1848 on land donated by Malcolm J. Buie and managed to maintain as Sunday school even during the Civil War.

This church was created in 1934, because a group of African Americans were tired of attending Mass near a sign that read, "Colored Catholics Sit Here." Historically, St. Ann's served the blacks while St. Patrick's was predominantly white. However, the St. Ann Catholic School was the first school in North Carolina to be integrated from its inception. Another unique aspect of St. Ann Church is the beautiful collection of stained glass windows depicting the church's history.

This church began with Mrs. Elsie Wright holding Sunday School classes in her home. In 1905, the cornerstone of the church was laid for the present structure.

Saint John’s, Fayetteville’s first Episcopal Church, was formally organized on April 7, 1817. The original church building was completed in 1819, but was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1831. The rector at the time traveled North to seek aid to rebuild the church and returned with $7,600, a bell (later given to the confederate cause) from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, New York.

In September 1879, the Reverend Barham organized St. Luke A.M.E. Church in McKeithan's Hall with thirty members.

On March 17, 1829, Bishop John England (Bishop of Charleston celebrated the dedication and solemn blessing of Saint Patrick Church, the first Roman Catholic Church dedicated in the State. The first building was destroyed in Fayetteville’s Great Fire of 1831. The second church building, constructed near the same site as the first church on Bow Street, served the parish for more than 100 years. In 1936, Saint Patrick parishioners relocated to Arsenal Avenue (the present location of St. Michael the Archangel Maronite Catholic Church). St. Patrick Catholic Church has been at its Village Drive location since 1963.

Following the big camp meeting in 1848, people gathered under the trees to praise God and Salem Church was founded.

Built in 1854, served a rural community of Scottish Highlander immigrants. The cemetery at Sandy Grove contains 214 known graves.  The earliest dates back to 1859.  Only open to groups of 15 people or more.

Sardis Presbyterian Church was organized on May 5, 1816, by a group of twenty-seven dedicated Christians who met for worship at Hodges Meeting House on the bank of Little River. Like other early Presbyterian churches, services were delivered in both English and Gaelic.

Second Missionary Baptist Church began as an outgrowth of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in 1886 when Reverend Henry Adams saw the need for a Baptist church in the Wilmington Road area.

Historic Presbyterian church.

According to a deed dated November 18,1873, a piece of land was sold by Henry McDonald to the Trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America. With this tract of land, the first substantial building was constructed with the name of Beaver Creek Chapel and steps of progress were seen. In 1887, under the leadership of Reverend M. N. Levy, an antique church bell was purchased. In October 1923, under the administration of Reverend E. Johnson McKoy, the church building was remodeled. The name was changed from Beaver Creek A. M. E. Zion Church to Simon Temple A. M. E. Zion Church on November 9, 1976, in recognition of Simon the Cyrene, who helped Jesus carry his cross.