Harry F. Shaw Cross Creek Linear Park

Harry F. Shaw Cross Creek Linear Park. . , ❶ Liberty Point , Just east on Bow Street, originally a wagon trail from the Cape Fear River to the settlement of Cross Creek, is Liberty Point. In 1775, a meeting of prominent citizens produced a declaration of independence from British rule. The Liberty Point Resolves preceded the Declaration of Independence by more than a year. The Liberty Point building dates to about 1791 and is the oldest commercial structure surviving in the city of Fayetteville. Nearby, west on Bow Street, stood the house where Scottish Loyalist Flora MacDonald lived., ❷ Old State House and Market House , The 1789 North Carolina General Assembly met in Fayetteville at the Old State House, which was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1831. The assembly ratified the United States Constitution, ceded its western lands to form the state of Tennessee, and chartered the first state university, the University of North Carolina. The current building, constructed in 1832 and known as the Market House, was a center of commerce well into the 20th Century., ❸ St. John's Episcopal Church , In 1816, the Episcopal community of Fayetteville worshiped with the Presbyterians but longed for its own church. A prominent local citizen, John Winslow, persuaded Rev. Berthell Judd, an Episcopal clergyman originally from Connecticut, to come to Fayetteville in January 1817 to establish a church. The church would be chartered in April of that year., The original building with a single tall spire that housed the town clock, burned in the Great Fire of 1831. The church was rebuilt within a year on the old walls to the same plans and consecrated in 1833; however, the single clock spire was replaced with the current structure of multiple spires., ❹ First Presbyterian Church , In 1800, the Rev. John Robinson was called as a teacher and preacher by the Presbyterians in Fayetteville. Soon after his arrival from Duplin County, he began to organize a church, and on September 6, 1801, the ordinance of the Lord's Supper was administered for the first time in Fayetteville. As early as 1809, plans were made to erect a church building, Rev. Colin Melver started as a clerk of the session and was appointed to make a northern and southern excursion to solicit funds. He collected from contributors such as President James Monroe, Russian Ambassador George Washington Campbell and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. During the pastorate of the Rev. Jesse H. Turner, the cornerstone of the original church was laid on April 21, 1816. The building was used continually for church services and civic gatherings until the Great Fire of May 29, 1831, which destroyed the church and over 600 homes and businesses in the village., [Caption:] , Following a fund raising journey to the North, the First Presbyterian Church was rebuilt on the original walls and dedicated on August 12, 1832.