The act establishing the county provided for the erection of the public buildings. In 1796 an act was passed establishing Carthage on land where the courthouse was to stand. In 1803 an act was passed naming commissioners to lay out a town and build a courthouse as directed in the act of 1796. In 1806, Carthage was changed to Feaginsville. The water power is very good, there being many never-failing streams.
Good timber is abundant.
Almost every product raised in the State can be raised in Moore County. There is no good reason whay this may not be, in a very few years, one of the very richest sections of North Carolina. In addition, there was the apprenticeship system, . . . Cameron and Vass, there existed prior to, during, and after the Civil War, a school, a church and a post office, known as Crane's Creek. . . . A short distance northeast of Carthage, east of Colin Spencer's lumber plant. .