Timeline of Fayetteville, North Carolina

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 20th century

• 1780 - Methodist Church established.^[1]
• 1783 - Cross Creek and Campbellton combine to become the town of "Fayetteville."
• 1789
  • November 21: North Carolina convention ratifies the U.S. Constitution.^[2]
  • Fayetteville Gazette newspaper begins publication.^[3]
• 1793 - Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry established.^[1]
• 1794 - Fayetteville Library Society incorporated.^[4][5]
• 1799 - Fayetteville Seminary founded.^[1]
• 1823 - Population: 3,532.^[6]
• 1830 - Fayetteville Female Society of Industry established.^[1]
• 1831 - May 29: Fire.^[2][1]
• 1845
  • June 6: Fire.^[1]
  • Fayetteville Library Institute founded.^[1]
• 1858 - Fayetteville Gas Company established.^[1]
• 1865 - March 14: Fayetteville occupied by Union Army.^[2]
• 1871 - Knights of Pythias established.^[1]
• 1877 - "State normal school for negroes" established.^[2]

20th century

• 1906 - Woman’s Club of Fayetteville founded.^[1]
• 1910 - Congregation Beth Israel established.^[7]
• 1915 - Orange Street School^[1] and Confederate Women’s Home^[8] established.
• 1918 - U.S. military Camp Bragg established near Fayetteville.
• 1921 - Fayetteville YMCA, and Fayetteville Business & Professional Women’s Club founded.^[1]
• 1925
  • Mission of M.E. Church established.^[1]
  • Prince Charles Hotel built.
• 1926 - Cumberland County Courthouse built.
• 1927 - Carolina Theater built.
• 1932 - Public library established.^[1]
• 1935 - Fayetteville Little Theatre begins operating.^[1]
• 1939 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter formed.^[1]
• 1941 - Colony Theater opens.^[9]
• 1948 - WFLB radio begins broadcasting.^[1]
• 1951 - U.S. military XVIII Airborne Corps headquartered at nearby Fort Bragg.
• 1952 - U.S. military Psychological Warfare Center established at nearby Fort Bragg.
• 1953 - High school opens.^[1]
• 1956 - Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra established.^[1]
• 1960 - February 10: Lunch counter sit-ins for civil rights occur.^[1]
• 1961 - Industrial Education Center established.
• 1969 - Fayetteville State University active.
• 1975 - Cross Creek Mall in business.
• 1982 - Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast North Carolina established.^[10]
• 1986 - Fayetteville Detention Center privatised.^[11]
• 1987 - David Price becomes U.S. representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district.^[12]
• 1988
  • Fayetteville Technical Community College active.
  • Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex established.^[13]
• 1989
  • Cape Fear Botanical Garden established.^[14]
  • Monarch Stadium (Methodist) opens.

21st century

• 2000 - City website online.^[15]
• 2001 - Marshall Pitts Jr. becomes mayor.
• 2005 - Tony Chavonne becomes mayor.
• 2010 - Population: 200,564.^[16]
• 2013 - Nat Robertson becomes mayor.

See also

• Fayetteville history
• List of mayors of Fayetteville, North Carolina
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, North Carolina
• Timeline of North Carolina

Other cities in North Carolina

• Timeline of Charlotte, North Carolina
• Timeline of Greensboro, North Carolina
• Timeline of Raleigh, North Carolina
• Timeline of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

References

1. "Selected Milestones in Cumberland County's History". Fayetteville, NC: Cumberland County Public Library. Retrieved May 2015.
2. Federal Writers’ Project 1939, p. 567: "Chronology"
3. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved May 2015.
4. Patrick M. Valentine (2006). "Useful Books: Community Libraries in Antebellum North Carolina". North Carolina Libraries (North Carolina Library Association). (fulltext)
5. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 2015.
6. Federal Writers’ Project 1939: "Fayetteville"
7. "Fayetteville, North Carolina". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved May 2015.
8. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. "(Fayetteville)". This Day in North Carolina History. Retrieved May 2015.
9. "Movie Theaters in Fayetteville, NC". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 2015.
10. "North Carolina Food Banks". Food Bank Locator. Chicago: Feeding America. Retrieved May 2015.
11. Martin P. Sellers (1993). "Privately Contracted Penal Facilities". History and Politics of Private Prisons. Associated University Presses. ISBN 978-0-8386-3492-9.
12. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved May 2015.
13. American Association for State and Local History (2002). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN 0759100020.
14. "Garden Search: United States of America: North Carolina". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved May 2015.
15. "Fayetteville". Archived from the original on May 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
16. "Fayetteville (city), North Carolina". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015.

Bibliography

• R.H. Long (1863), "Fayetteville", Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States, Pittsburgh, Pa.: John P. Hunt
• Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Fayetteville". North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. p. 196+ – via Open Library.. + Chronology
• John Oates. The Story of Fayetteville and the Upper Cape Fear (Fayetteville, 1981)
• Roy Parker Jr. (2006), William S. Powell, ed., "Fayetteville", Encyclopedia of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press)
• Raj Chetty; Nathaniel Hendren (2015), City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood, Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, Rank #100: Fayetteville, North Carolina

External links

• Sana Moulder, Kelly Vadney (ed.). "Resources for Genealogy and Local History". LibGuides. Fayetteville, NC: Cumberland County Public Library.
• "City of Fayetteville". North Carolina History Project. Raleigh, NC: John Locke Foundation.