Middle Creek Primitive Baptist Church has been honored as the oldest existing church in Wake County, NC by Isaac Hunter’s Tavern Society, Children of the American Revolution. This historic church was established in 1756 by the Reverend Thomas Tulley. President Bethany Edwards presented a framed certificate from the National Society, Children of the American Revolution and the local society to Reverend Dan Carroll and the congregation.

The original meeting house was built of logs and burned down. In 1807 William Holland willed $400 to build a new meeting house. This church also burned down in 1880. A third meeting house was erected and remained for almost a century. The present structure was built in 1960 on the same site. Lt. Col. Hardy Sanders, an elder of this church, and Officer in the Wake County Militia during the Revolutionary War, recruited sixty volunteers on the church lawn. They had to supply their own horses and guns as he had no other way to collect arms. Now the militia was one hundred men strong and met at the Wake County Court House for the march to the Cape Fear.

Lt. Col. Sanders not only served in the militia but also received three Revolutionary War vouchers. He sold 340 pounds of beef to the Army worth thirteen Spanish Milled Dollars. He also sold 37 bushels of corn and 27 pounds of oats for nine Spanish Milled Dollars and 262 pounds of bacon with 53 Spanish Milled Dollars. This only means that these good were worth 611 Spanish Milled Dollars and he received vouches for this amount. Vouchers were actually a form of credit from the State of North Carolina for goods purchased or military goods or service. These vouchers could be used to pay taxes or other sums owed to the state. Lt. Col. Sanders was a prosperous man and served as Justice of the Peace in 1771 and in 1780 became Sheriff of Wake County , a position he held for many years. He married Lucy Utley and died in August of 1812.