What we know about the Murchisons
Fayetteville’s historian is sure that Murchison Road is named after a prominent family that owned a plantation in what’s now Spring Lake. Here’s what else we know.• Kenneth McKenzie Murchison was a Scottish immigrant who settled on the Little River in Cumberland County in 1773 and acquired large tracts of timberland. He was a Patriot, unlike many of his newly arrived Scots neighbors, and he certified in the Cumberland militia, wrote military historian Roy Parker Jr. He died in […]
