Cabincreek

Cabin Creek Settlement was in Nettle Creek township, and extended also into
West River and Stony Creek, and slightly into White River township.

Colored families began to come into the region not long after 1825 from North
Carolina and Virginia. There were 80 to 100 families and several hundred
people. After some time some of the families moved on. In the 1880's the
number of familes were down to thiry to forty that formed a single school
district.

The following information was taken from Tucker's History page 134.

John Demory came first to the western part of the county about 1825, with
Lemuel Vestal, from North Carolina, Demory being the first colored person in
that part of Randolph County.

Two other colored familes came soon afterwards-Drew Taylor, on Eight Mile
Creek, and Obadiah Anderson, in the southeast part of the county. After them
came Richard Robbins, Samuel Outland and Benjamin Outland, who, as the the
colored settlement proper, came first, or nearly so, shortly after 1825, settling in
Stony Creek Township. The settlement is exclusively a farming community, as
there is no town whatever in connection therewith.

Afterwards came Robert Scott, Willis Crane, Nathan Ward, Dudley, Jerry Terry,
Abram Cotman, Thomas Wilkerson, Matthew Chavis, Seeny, Robert Ward,
Isaac Woods, Edward Outland, Abram Woods, Benjamin Skipworth, Samuel
Woods, John Smith, Jesse Woods, Phillip Woods (father), Jacob Woods,
Dosha Smothers and a large family of girls, Colman Scott, Solomon Scott.
There were also many others.

The citizens in that settlement now are chiefly James Scott, Andrew Scott,
Eleazer Scott, Ananiah Scott, Martin Scott, Monroe Barber, Peter Ladd, Wyatt
Jennings, John Roberts, Richard Scott, Isaac Ward, David Stafford, Stephen
Perkins, Burrell Perkins, Mrs. Paulina Scott, Charles Barracks, George Hill,
Perry Stafford, John Sawyer, Greenbury Scott, Isaac Woods, Charles
Smothers, Anderson Moore, George Outland, John Hall, Minerva Moore,
Immanuel Stafford, John Watkins and some others.

Cabin Creek (Colored) M.E. Church taken in 2004

Cabin Creek (colored) M.E. Chruch - Began in 1833. The first meeting-house
was at their old graveyard southeast of Poplar Run Friends' Meeting-House. That
house has been gone many years (closed in 1865), and they have worshipped in
their schoolhouse to the present time. They are now erecting a tasteful and
commodious church near their public school building, which will furnish ample
accomodations for worshipping assemblies for years to come. The size is
28x38: cost, $760.

The above information is from Tucker's history page 135.