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Location in Cumberland County and the state of North Carolina.
State North Carolina Fayetteville (/ fe t v l/) is a town/city in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a primary U.S.
Fayetteville has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League three times.
As of the 2010 census it had a populace of 200,564, with an estimated populace of 204,408 in 2013. It is the sixth-largest municipality in North Carolina.
Fayetteville is in the Sandhills in the part of the Coastal Plain region, on the Cape Fear River.
With an estimated populace in 2013 of 210,533 citizens , the Fayetteville urbane region is the biggest in southeastern North Carolina, and the fifth-largest in the state.
Suburban areas of metro Fayetteville include Fort Bragg, Hope Mills, Spring Lake, Raeford, Pope Field, Rockfish, Stedman, and Eastover.
Fayetteville's mayor is Nat Robertson, who is serving his second term. See also: Timeline of Fayetteville, North Carolina The region of present-day Fayetteville was historically inhabited by various Siouan Native American citizens s, such as the Eno, Shakori, Waccamaw, Keyauwee, and Cape Fear citizens .
After the violent upheavals of the Yamasee War and Tuscarora Wars amid the second decade of the 18th century, the North Carolina colony encouraged English settlement along the upper Cape Fear River, the only navigable waterway entirely inside the colony.
In 1783, Cross Creek and Campbellton united, and the new town was incorporated as Fayetteville with respect to Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero who decidedly aided the American forces amid the war. Fayetteville was the first town/city to be titled in his honor in the United States. Lafayette visited the town/city on March 4 and 5, 1825, amid his grand tour of the United States. Liberty Point in Fayetteville, where the "Liberty Point Resolves" were signed in June 1775 The Cool Spring Tavern, assembled in 1788, is the earliest structure in Fayetteville.
Rowan Street and Rowan Park in Fayetteville and a small-town chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are titled for him, though Rowan County (founded in 1753) was titled for his uncle, Matthew Rowan.
Flora Mac - Donald (1722 1790), a Scots Highland woman known for aiding Bonnie Prince Charlie after his Highlander army's defeat at Culloden in 1746, lived in North Carolina for about five years.
Seventy-First Township in Cumberland County (now a part of Fayetteville) is titled for a British regiment amid the American Revolution the 71st Regiment of Foot or "Fraser's Highlanders", as they were first called.
Historic sign in Fayetteville Fayetteville had what is sometimes called its "golden decade" amid the 1780s.
Constitution, and for the General Assembly session that chartered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fayetteville lost out to the future town/city of Raleigh in the bid to turn into the permanent state capital.
In 1793, the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry formed and is still active as a ceremonial unit.
He met opposition from caucasians when he began preaching to slaves in Fayetteville, but he later thriving caucasians to his services.
Fayetteville had 3,500 inhabitants in 1820, but Cumberland County's populace still ranked as the second-most urban in the state behind New Hanover County (Wilmington).
Fayetteville leaders moved quickly to help the victims and rebuild the town.
It served as Fayetteville Town Hall until 1907.
The Confederate arsenal in Fayetteville was finished in March 1865 by Union Gen.
Sherman and his 60,000-man army attacked Fayetteville and finished the Confederate arsenal (designed by the Scottish architect William Bell).
Sherman's troops also finished foundries and cotton factories, and the offices of The Fayetteville Observer.
Not far from Fayetteville, Confederate and Union troops engaged in the last cavalry battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Monroe's Crossroads.
Downtown Fayetteville was the site of a skirmish, as Confederate Lt.
In the late nineteenth century, Fayetteville caucasians adopted Jim Crow and state laws to impose ethnic segregation.
Children working in the Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills in Fayetteville, 1914.
Cumberland County's populace exploded in the post-World War II years, with its 43% increase in the 1960s the biggest in any of North Carolina's 100 counties.
Construction was fast-paced as shopping developments and suburban subdivisions began to spread outside the Fayetteville town/city limits toward Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base.
The Fayetteville and Cumberland County school systems moved toward integration gradually, beginning in the early 1960s; busing brought about wider-scale student integration in the 1970s.
Marches and sit-ins amid the Civil Rights Movement, with students from Fayetteville State Teachers College (now Fayetteville State University) at the forefront, led to the end of whites-only service at restaurants and segregated seating in theaters.
The Vietnam Era was a time of change in the Fayetteville area.
Fort Bragg did not send many large units to Vietnam, but from 1966 to 1970, more than 200,000 soldiers trained at the post before leaving for the war.
Anti-war protests in Fayetteville drew nationwide attention because of Fort Bragg, in a town/city that generally supported the war.
Anti-war groups invited the actress and activist Jane Fonda to Fayetteville to participate in three anti-war affairs.
At this time, Fayetteville also made headlines after Army doctor Jeffrey R.
To combat the dispersal of suburbanization, Fayetteville has worked to redevelop its downtown through various revitalization projects; it has thriving large commercial and defense companies such as Purolator, General Dynamics and Wal-Mart Stores and Distribution Center.
Development of the Airborne & Special Operations Museum, Fayetteville Area Transportation Museum, Fayetteville Linear Park, and Fayetteville Festival Park, which opened in late 2006, have added county-wide attractions to the center.
In the first decade of the 21st century, the suburbs and non-urban areas encircling Fayetteville had rapid growth.
In the November/December 2009 copy of Where to Retire, the periodical titled Fayetteville as one of the best places to retire in the United States for military retirements. On or about 11 December 2015, Fayetteville unveiled the Guinness World Record for the biggest Christmas stocking, weighing approx.
Fort Bragg and Pope Army Airfield Field are in the northern part of the town/city of Fayetteville.
Army airborne units are stationed at Fort Bragg, most prominently the XVIII Airborne Corps HQ, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the United States Army Special Operations Command.
In September 2008, Fayetteville took in 85% of Ft.
Bragg, bringing the populace of the town/city to 206,000.
Fayetteville hopes to attract large retail businesses to the region using the new populace figures. Fayetteville becomes the first "Sanctuary for Soldiers".
Time periodical recognized Fayetteville for its support of military families and identified it as "America's Most Pro-Military Town". Main article: National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, North Carolina According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Fayetteville has a total region of 147.7 square miles (382.6 km2), of which 145.8 square miles (377.7 km2) is territory and 1.9 square miles (4.8 km2) is water.
Fayetteville is in the Sandhills of North Carolina, which are between the coastal plain to the southeast and the Piedmont to the northwest.
The town/city is assembled on the Cape Fear River, a 202-mile-long (325 km) river that originates in Haywood and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
Carver's Falls, measuring 150 feet (46 m) wide and two stories tall, is on Carver Creek, a tributary of the Cape Fear, just northeast of the town/city limits.
Fayetteville is positioned in the humid subtropical climate (Koppen climate classification Cfa) zone, with mostly moderate temperatures year round.
Temperature records range from 5 F ( 21 C) on February 13, 1899 to 110 F (43 C) on August 21, 1983, which was the highest temperature ever recorded in the State of North Carolina.
On April 16, 2011, Fayetteville was hit by an EF3 tornado amid North Carolina's biggest tornado outbreak.
Climate data for Fayetteville, North Carolina (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 0.1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.3 The ethnic composition of the town/city was 45.7% White, 41.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian American, 1.1% Native American, 0.4% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 3.3% some other race, and 4.9% two or more competitions.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 14.4% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
On September 30, 2005, Fayetteville took in 27 square miles (70 km2) and 46,000 residents.
Hundreds of homes of worship have been established in and around Cumberland County, including Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, which have the biggest congregations. Fayetteville is home to St.
Fayetteville is also home to Congregation Beth Israel, formed in 1910 by the Jewish families of Fayetteville.
Fort Bragg and Pope Field pump about $4.5 billion a year into the region's economy, making Fayetteville one of the best retail markets in the country.
Fayetteville serves as the region's core for shops, restaurants, services, lodging, community care and entertainment.
Fayetteville boasts a low unemployment rate with a large workforce pool of trained professionals.
According to Fayetteville 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Cumberland County Public School System 6,000+ 7 City of Fayetteville 1,000+ The Fayetteville region has a large and burgeoning defense trade and was ranked in the Top 5 Defense Industry Development areas in US for 2010. Eight of the ten top American defense contractors are positioned in the area, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and L-3 Communications.
Hay Street in Downtown Fayetteville Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum Fayetteville Museum of Art North Carolina Veterans Park Fayetteville Fire - Antz Ice Hockey SPHL Crown Coliseum 2002 1 Fayetteville Swampdogs Collegiate Baseball Coastal Plain League J.
*The Houston Astros' Class-A Advanced partner will play its 2017 and 2018 seasons in Buies Creek while a new stadium is assembled in downtown Fayetteville.
The team will begin playing at its new home in Fayetteville starting in 2019. Cumberland County Schools' command posts are positioned in Fayetteville, and the schools serve all metros/cities and suburbs of the county.
CCS operates a total of 87 schools, 53 elementary schools, 16 middle schools, 15 high schools and 9 Alternative and Specialty Schools including, 1 year-round classical, 1 evening academy, 1 web academy, and 2 special schools.
Cumberland County Schools is the 4th-largest school fitness in the state and 78th-largest in the country.
Fayetteville Academy Fayetteville Christian School (Pre-K 12) Fayetteville State University Fayetteville Technical Community College See also: List of newspapers in North Carolina, List of airways broadcasts in North Carolina, and List of tv stations in North Carolina Fay - TV7 (Time Warner Cable Channel 7) City of Fayetteville's Government Access Channel Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum in the restored 1890 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Depot The historic Fayetteville Amtrak station Fayetteville Regional Airport is served by five county-wide carriers that furnish daily and cyclic passenger services to three primary airline hubs inside the United States.
Landmark Aviation provides fixed-base operator services for passenger and general aviation traffic at the Fayetteville Regional Airport.
See also: Fayetteville Area System of Transit The Fayetteville Area System of Transit (FAST) serves the Fayetteville and Spring Lake regions, with ten bus routes and two shuttle routes.
FAST operates thirteen fixed bus routes inside the town/city of Fayetteville.
Most routes begin and end at the Transfer Center at 147 Old Wilmington Road in Fayetteville.
See also: Fayetteville (Amtrak station) Henry Evans (circa 1760 1810) assembled the first Methodist church in Fayetteville in 1793; he is known as the "Father of Methodism" for the area.
Chip Beck, experienced golfer, born in Fayetteville 1820 1860), Fayetteville native hanged for murder in Saint Paul, Minnesota Randy Boone, nation music singer, actor, The Virginian, Cimarron Strip, and It's a Man's World, born in Fayetteville Beth Finch, first female mayor of Fayetteville (1975-1981) Open champion, World Golf Hall of Fame, attended Fayetteville High Graham, president of the University of North Carolina and U.S.
Kathryn Morgan, ballet dancer with New York City Ballet, born at Fort Bragg Even with Fayetteville's modest ranking as the 106th biggest city in the US, with a populace of about 204,000, Fayetteville has earned many top awards and recognition as a desirable location, due to its economic and housing expansion as well as its reliance on Fort Bragg.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fayetteville city, North Carolina".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 (PEPANNRES): North Carolina Incorporated Places".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 (GCT-PEPANNRES) - United States -- Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area".
"City of Fayetteville official website".
Encyclopedia of North Carolina, 3rd ed., Vol.
"BRAC: Developers Place Bets on Growth", Fayetteville Observer "Bragg annexation could boost Fayetteville's retail scene".
Fayetteville Wants You "Fayetteville: America's Most Pro-Military Town" via www.time.com.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 (DP-1): Fayetteville city, North Carolina".
"Selected Economic Characteristics: 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates (DP03): Fayetteville city, North Carolina".
City of Fayetteville CAFR "PDI Research & Development Lab - Mission Statement - North Carolina".
"Woman's Club of Fayetteville -".
"Fayetteville Museum of Art - Home page".
"Fayetteville, Houston Astros sign 30-year agreement to bring baseball to downtown".
The Fayetteville Observer.
Fayetteville Academy at the Wayback Machine (archived November 21, 2007) "Fayetteville Christian School".
Fayetteville Christian School.
"North Carolina's Rail Division with AMTRAK Service".
Fayetteville Observer.
List of United States metros/cities by populace "Best Cities for Recent Grads".
"Jobs picture brightens a bit in Triangle, is strong in Fayetteville :: WRAL.com".
City Management 2011 All-America City Award Winners Announced "Interactive City Directory".
An ethnographic study of urban politics and ethnic tensions in Fort Bragg and Fayetteville.
The University of North Carolina Press.
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The story of Fayetteville and the upper Cape Fear.
Fayetteville Woman's Club.
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