The petition made a proposition to subscribe ten thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad Company.

As a result, it was ordered that the election of subscribing the said sum of ten thousand dollars to the capital stock of the said railroad company be submitted to the qualified voters of the Dutchville Township and that an election be held in the said township at the proper voting place therein on 8 October 1887.

In 1886, Thomas B. Lyon applied to the Postal Department for a post office to be located in Creedmoor.

In 1888 Lyon sold part of his land to the Durham and Northern Railroad for track to run through the town.

The old Seaboard train depot building still stands at its location on Elm Street, making it over 120 years old.

Also previously located on Elm Street was the original First Baptist Church of Creedmoor, built in 1895.

Lyon's body is entombed on the grounds of the original cemetery for the church, whereas Robert Fleming's body is entombed in a small family plot on Fleming Street, a road named for the founder, adjacent to Elm Street.

The street Joe Peed Road located on southbound US-15 leaving the city is named in his honor.

In 1917, electricity came to Creedmoor when G. H. Dove and F. J. McDuffy flipped a switch in their plant on Railroad Street.

In 1906, Jim Netherly and a Mr. Cooper founded the Creedmoor Supply Company, which sold feed, mules, horses, buggies, and even some groceries and seeds to meet the demands of local farmers.

It was not until the mid-1950s that the town removed the slogan "One of the Largest Retail Livestock Markets in North Carolina" from the official letterhead.

Joel Anderson Pitts (1877–1958), a graduate of Duke University – then called Trinity College – was the first principal.

Rogers, Creedmoor town physician and dentist who was a member of the Granville County Board of Education at that time.

In 1975, Hawley became a middle school serving grades five through eight from the Butner, Stem, and Creedmoor areas and eighth graders from Wilton.

At the present time, Hawley Middle School teaches grades six through eight from the Creedmoor and Wilton area.

Other newspapers distributed throughout the city are: Creedmoor is located in southern Granville County and is bordered to the west by the town of Butner.