East Main St. (NC 403), Faison, North Carolina. County/parish: Duplin.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 19, 2006. NRIS 06000291.
Part of Duplin County MPS (NRIS 64500357).
35 contributing objects.
Faison Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Faison, Duplin County, North Carolina. The cemetery includes approximately 320 marked graves with the oldest dating to 1788. The cemetery began as the Faison family burial ground and officially became the community cemetery for the white population in 1892.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
US Congressman John M. Faison (1862–1915) is buried there.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717699