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Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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William D. Paisley becomes pastor of the Hawfields and Cross Roads churches
After serving the Union and Buffalo churches in Guilford County, Paisley took charge of the Hawfields and Cross Roads Presbyterian churches near present Mebane in 1801 and stayed until 1818. The Hawfields church historian credits him with organizing the first camp meeting in North Carolina there during the Great Revival.
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William D. Paisley buys the farm where the Paisley-Rice log house stands
The Presbyterian minister William D. Paisley bought a 200-acre tract from James Davis in February 1801. Local tradition and the nomination hold that he built the dovetailed log house on this land in the early 1800s.
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Crowds camp for days at Hawfields for the fall communion
The revival that began at Cross Roads spread to Hawfields, where people from far away came to the fall communion and stayed on the grounds in their wagons for three or four days. Foote dates it to October 1801 in one place and October 1802 in another, and calls it the first camp meeting in North Carolina; Eno and other churches of the upper counties took up the practice.
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William D. Paisley sells his Orange County farm to Elijah Pickard
Paisley left the Hawfields in 1818 to head the Greensborough Academy and in September 1819 sold the log house farm to Elijah Pickard. The chain of title is unclear for some years after the sale.
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