Buffalo Church

Buffalo Church is a North Carolina historical marker in Lee County, dedicated 1949.

Carthage Street at Groce Road in Sanford

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Presbyterian. Founded in 1797 by Scottish Highlanders. Present building, the fourth, erected 1880, stands on original site.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1794 · North Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · State of North Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · North-Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1802 · United States 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

State of North Carolina, 1795, covering the location of Buffalo Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — State of North Carolina, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

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On the National Register nearby

Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Cemeteries240 ft

Places within about 300 feet of this marker that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A nearby listing is not always the marker's own subject.