New Light is an unincorporated community in New Light Township,

Wake County Wake County, officially the County of Wake, is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,129,410, making it North Carolina's most populous county. From July 2005 to July 2006, Wake Count ...

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, United States. It is located at the intersection of Purnell Rd (SR 1909), Stony Hill Rd (SR 1917), and Mangum Dairy Rd (SR 1911). It has an elevation of 413 ft. As of January 2019, New Light Township has a population of 8,687 and a median home value of $380,000.

History

In the 1750s,

New Light Baptists The terms Old Lights and New Lights (among others) are used in Protestant Christian circles to distinguish between two groups that were initially the same but had come to a disagreement. The terms originated in the early 18th century from a split i ...

migrated from

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to North Carolina. They established the first

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church in Wake County in 1771. The community later had a creek and a

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named after them.

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Wake County, North Carolina Unincorporated communities in North Carolina