The Cane Creek Friends Meeting, founded in 1751,[2] is considered the first established Quaker community in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.

Simon Dixon, a Quaker who migrated from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, came to the Cane Creek area and what is now known as Snow Camp, North Carolina during the late 1740s.

[3]: 14  During 1751, Quaker Minister Abigail Pike and Rachel Wright traveled to Perquimans County, North Carolina to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Little River, in hopes of gaining permission to establish a new monthly meeting in Cane Creek.

[3]: 108–112 During the Revolutionary War the community of Snow Camp, North Carolina was briefly occupied following the Battle of Guilford Courthouse by General Charles Cornwallis and his troops, among others.

[3]: 138–141 [5][page needed] Herman Husband, a leader during the War of the Regulation, was a member of the Cane Creek Meeting from 1762 to 1764.