Since 1751, Cane Creek Friends Meeting has grown through a succession of meetinghouses and ministries. The first Cane Creek Meetinghouse stood about two miles east on land belonging to John Stanfield, and the first of four meetinghouses on the present site was built in 1764 on land given by William Marshall. The third meetinghouse was destroyed by fire in 1879 and the fourth in January 1942. Ten months later the present building was completed and services were once again held on this site. Through the years, Cane Creek established Sylvan Academy in 1866, hired a part time minister in 1918, and in 1941 hired Elbert Newlin as its first full time minister. Its first parsonage was built in 1947 on land donated by Pearl Griffin, and the present parsonage was built in 1990 on land donated by David Carter. Abigail Overman Pike, born in 1709, was a charter member of Cane Creek Meeting and a recorded Quaker minister who lived her Christian faith as she practiced her Quaker beliefs. The Pike home stood about two miles west. She and Rachel Wright were part of a delegation that traveled on horseback to Perquimans County to request the Quarterly Meeting’s permission to establish a Monthly Meeting at Cane Creek. She traveled extensively to promote the growth of other Quaker Meetings, to represent Cane Creek at various meetings, and Cane Creek relied on her judgment in many areas of the Meeting. She married John Pike in 1731 and they had 8 children. After John’s death in 1774, she moved from the area and joined New Garden Meeting. She is buried at Muddy Creek burial ground.