1754-1779
These buckles are believed to have been worn by Flora Macdonald.
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Highlands shoe buckles
Rhinestones and cut green glass form decorative circles on a pair of shoe buckles believed to have been used by Highlander heroine Flora Macdonald.
According to legend, Macdonald gave them to a family who offered her hospitality in Wilmington before she departed for New York to be with her husband, then a prisoner of war.
The buckles are on display at the Museum of the Cape Fear.
Hugh Waddell's pistols are on display at the Museum of the Cape Fear.
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A pioneer's pistol
Hugh Waddell carried this pistol and others during the 1750s as he defended the North Carolina and Virginia frontiers during the French and Indian War.
He represented Bladen County in the state assembly in 1762. He was part of the committee that considered Cross Creek's application for township. When the assembly chartered Campbellton, Waddell was named one of its commissioners.
Tuscarora artifacts, such as this arrowhead, are on display at the Museum of the Cape Fear.
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A record set in stone
Tuscarora Indians once lived in what would become Cumberland County.
Among the artifacts the Indians left are arrowheads and burial mounds in Fayetteville and Hope Mills.
In the early 18th century, they had about six towns and 1,200 warriors.
The Tuscarora clashed with colonial settlers. In 1711, Indians attacked New Bern and other settlements, killing hundreds of settlers.
It was not until 1713 that the settlers regained control, defeating the Tuscarora at their village of Neoheroka, west of Snow Hill in Greene County.
Once the Tuscarora lost their fight, they fled North Carolina to become the sixth nation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Today, the Tuscarora Indian Nation estimates that 1,000 Tuscaroras live on its reservation in Niagara County, N.Y.
Old Bluff Presbyterian Church retains some goblets that are more than 200 years old.
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Communion cups
These sterling silver communion cups bear the inscription "For the Presbyterian Congregations in Cumberland County, North Carolina, under the care of Rev'd John MacLeod, Apr. 21st, 1775."
The legend is that the cups were a gift from King George III.
The cups are under the care of the Old Bluff Presbyterian Church in Wade, the oldest church in Cumberland County.
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