General rules: Anyone may log the caches in this series, but kids (12 years old and under) can earn special awards. Kids logging any 4 of the 6 caches in either the Long Ago But Not Far Away – Fairview series or the Long Ago But Not Far Away - Spring Mountain series and emailing the answers to the Kids' Answer Sheet will receive a certificate and a special prize for each series.
Kids earning both the Fairview and the Spring Mountain certificates will receive a special geocoin. Cachers over 12 years old will not receive a prize, certificate, or geocoin. Multiple children in a family may each receive their own awards, but each child requesting an award must have been present during all the cache hunts. Make sure you print out the Kids' Answer Sheet for Fairview before beginning this project!
To claim your award(s), click “Spring Mountain Community Club” just below the cache title and send an email including:
(1) the names of the caches you found along with the answers to their questions,
(2) your name and caching name, and
(3) your age.
(Information will be used to verify your qualification and print your certificate and will then be deleted. Parents, please contact us if you prefer not to share this information.)
Other caches in this series:
Adam Cooper
Sherrill's Inn
Soapstone
The Lord's Acre
Where Is Fairview?
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Cane Creek Church
Permission for this cache has been graciously granted by the church leadership, so please treat the property respectfully and do not hunt for this cache on Sundays from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. or on Wednesdays from 5 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. or at any other time that church activities are taking place.
Between 1795 and 1810, the number of settlers in the Fairview area increased from just an occasional cabin here and there to an actual settlement with all surrounding land being owned by someone. By 1805, there was a school on Cane Creek. The next year, the schoolmaster and local Christians chartered the first church in Fairview, Cane Creek Baptist Church. The schoolmaster, Elder Humphrey Posey, became the pastor and preached throughout the area until 1817, when he accepted a call to bring the Gospel to the Cherokee Indians in far western North Carolina.
Humphrey Posey in his later years.
Cane Creek Baptist Church provided for not only the spiritual and social needs of the people, but the minor legal needs as well. Rev. Posey preached one Saturday and one Sunday of each month. Church business was also taken care of on Saturdays because more people were able to come to town on that day. Sometimes that business included a “trial” if a citizen had misbehaved. The church building served as a “courthouse” and the congregation as a “jury” for trying offenses against the local moral standards and lesser offenses against the civil law.
Members could be charged with anything from “skirts up above the ankle” to drunkenness, fighting, stealing, or practicing sorcery. Penalties ranged from paying a small fine to being ejected from church membership and rejected by the community, according to the seriousness of the crime. This form of public accountability seemed to work well, and Fairview gained a reputation as an upright community.
The original church building stood across the road from the present Cane Creek Cemetery (N 35º 31.313 W 082º 24.036). In 1891 the congregation relocated to a spot within a few feet of this cache location. By 1913 the third and current sanctuary had been erected, and the church was renamed Fairview Baptist Church.
If you are working toward the kids' Fairview prizes, be sure to write down what you think the current church building (with steeple) is made of.