Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Falcon, NC

Falcon is a small town in northeastern Cumberland County, North Carolina, with a portion extending into neighboring Sampson County.

Falcon is best known as the birthplace of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, today the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, a denomination with roots in the American holiness movement.

On January 30, 1911, in Falcon's Octagon Tabernacle, leaders of the Pentecostal Holiness Church of North Carolina and the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church signed the merger agreement that formally created the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

The Octagon Tabernacle, also called the Falcon Tabernacle or Little Tabernacle, was built in 1898 by town founder Julius A. Culbreth for prayer meetings, using wood salvaged from trees uprooted by a tornado.

Culbreth chose the building's unusual eight-sided shape because it reminded him of the tents used in old-fashioned revival meetings.

The Falcon Tabernacle was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, nine years after it was moved to its present location on West Street.

Culbreth started the Falcon Camp Meeting Association in 1900, and the annual Falcon Camp Meeting drew holiness and Pentecostal believers from across the South to the little town.

In 1952 a much larger church was built in front of the Little Tabernacle, and the congregation is now known as Culbreth Memorial Pentecostal Holiness Church in the founder's honor.

The 2020 census counted 324 people in Falcon, and the town's population has stayed remarkably small for a century, ranging between 200 and 357 residents in every census since 1920.