Waxhaw Presbyterian Church was the first church in upper South Carolina. A four and a half acre tract was deeded to the congregation by Robert Miller, school teacher and minister, on March 9, 1758. The first pastor was Rev. Wm. Richardson, from 1759 to 1771. The earliest log building was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers during the Revolutionary War and was burned by the British. The present church, the fourth, was built in 1896 and remodeled in 1942. Tombstones in the churchyard date from 1758. Among the prominent men buried here are President Andrew Jackson's father, Rev. William Richardson, and Gen. William R. Davie, a patriot minister, founder of the University of North Carolina, governor of North Carolina in 1798, and minister to France in 1799.