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Cub Creek Church

Cub Creek Church is a Virginia historical marker in Charlotte County, dedicated 2016.

Charlotte County · dedicated 2016 · Rte. 40 at intersection with Rte. 682/649/Fearstown Road

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Cub Creek Presbyterian Church, the oldest church in this area, stood four miles southwest of here. The neighborhood was known as the Caldwell Settlement for John Caldwell, great-grandfather of U.S. senator and vice president John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. Caldwell, born in Ireland, obtained permission to establish a dissenting church in Virginia in 1738 and led a group of Scots-Irish immigrants here several years later. Among Cub Creek's visiting preachers were John Blair, Samuel Davies, and Samuel Stanhope Smith. Meeting here in Oct. 1774, the Hanover Presbytery established schools that later became Washington and Lee University and Hampden-Sydney College. The church burned in 1937.
Department of Historic Resources, 2016

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