Historical Significance:
"This was the site of the Presbyterian Meeting House and the Waxhaw Academy., it was organized in 1755. Wounded soldiers fro the Battle of the Waxhaws were brought here for medical care and those that died were buried here. This was the meeting place for the local Patriots. The church on the site now is over sixty years old. The oldest legible tombstone in the cemetery is dated 1758.
There are four DAR markers on the site the oldest was erected in 1931. Andrew Jackson Sr., William Richardson Davie, Major John Barkley, Major Robert Crawford, Captain Isaac Donnom, Hue and Robert Jackson, Reverend William Richardson, and some the soldiers that dies in the Revolution Battle of the Waxhaws. (Wording from Catawba Chapter, NSDAR Historic Property form.)
