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Cedar Cove is a small coastal North Carolina community. It is home to the residents of Cedar Cove and has been for over 150 years. The town's history is rich and complex and can be traced back to the founding of the town by early settlers, including an American Indian tribe, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina. The story of Cedar Cove begins with the establishment of a trading post on the shore of the Cape Fear River in 1761 by members of the Lumbee tribe. The post was called "Wahegoo" (meaning "the river" in their Algonquian language) Read more

But it soon became known as "Old Town". It was here that several surveying expeditions were conducted, including an 1803 expedition led by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and the passage of Gen.

Andrew Jackson and his troops through later that same year. By 1820, Old Town had fallen into disrepair and had been abandoned by its Indian inhabitants. A new town began to form around present-day Cedar Cove, however; a new village called "New Town" was established just north of Old Town on land granted to John Hawley in 1811. By 1825, New Town had grown to over 500 citizens, but there were few permanent structures there other than the lumber mill built by John Hawley in 1820 or what remains today as Cedar Cove's Courthouse Square. The first permanent white settlement came in 1829 when two brothers, Jonathan and Joseph Gray opened a store on what would become Main Street in the village of Cedar Cove.

The Graysville post office was established in 1831, followed by a growing number of traders who brought goods from Fayetteville to sell to local residents. The post office name changed to "Cedar Cove" in late 1840s after John Hawley's sons-in-law, Henry Gray and David Gray, acquired property there that they named "Cedar Cove". It was one of several private parcels that were brought into private hands because they were situated along portions of old Indian trails used by Native Americans for trade purposes. By 1850, Cedar Cove had grown to about 1,000 residents thanks to further expansion from Fayetteville and its railroad station completed in 1855 at the foot of Main Street where the current train depot now stands.

The first schoolhouse was built at that location that same year, but was replaced by a larger building called Pine Hill Schoolhouse that stood until 1939