Shiloh Community

Shiloh developed in Cedar Fork Township in the late 1820's as a rural community of free African Americans and slaves. By 1870, it was a self-sufficient community with a public school, co-op store, midwives, recreation center, and church. Rev. James Dunston, the third pastor of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, was instrumental in securing land ownership, education, and economic development for Shiloh's residents. The thriving community was home to more than 57 farmers on property extending from the Durham County line to south of McCrimmon Parkway before it was annexed into the town of Morrisville, NC in 1987. Dunston's contributions had a profound effect on North Carolina's history, and he is buried on the northeast side of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church as the only pastor with that distinction.

Morrisville, North Carolina · United States