Selected Milestones in Cumberland County's History:
1754 - 2004
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Selected Milestones in Cumberland County's History: 1754 - 2004 |
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1800 |
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| Census sets population for Cumberland County at 9,264. | ||||||
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1801 |
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| Fayetteville Academy students perform a variety of theatrical exhibits for the benefit of the Academy. Proceeds were more than $120. | ||||||
| Hay Street Methodist Church founded. | ||||||
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1810 |
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| Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim slave, is purchased at Fayetteville by John Owen of Bladen County. Ibn Said could read and write Arabic. | ||||||
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Census sets population for Cumberland County 9,382. |
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1818 |
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| Paris J. Tillinghast appear in the North Carolina Congress asking for incorporation of the Fayetteville Library Company. | ||||||
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1820 |
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| The 1820 population for Cumberland County is 14,446. | ||||||
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1823 |
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| St. John’s Episcopal Church establishes a circulating library. | ||||||
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1824 |
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| Hooper’s Classical School advertises in the Raleigh Register (December 3, 1824) to “propose to open a select school for instruction in the classics and the usual elementary branches of education.” | ||||||
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1825 |
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| General Lafayette visits Fayetteville on March 4, 1825. | ||||||
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1830 |
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| 1830 population for Cumberland County is 14,834. | ||||||
| Fayetteville Female Society of Industry was incorporated. This benevolent society help provide work for women whose families depended on them for daily support. | ||||||
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1831 |
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| The Great Fire of Fayetteville (May 29, 1831). Fayetteville loses 600 homes, 125 businesses, several churches, and the State House. | ||||||
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Tabor United Methodist Church founded. |
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St. Patrick’s Catholic Church is established. |
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| Ravencroft Academy is incorporated. | ||||||
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1832 |
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| The Market House is built. | ||||||
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| Donaldson Academy and Labor School is incorporated. | ||||||
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| First kindergarten opens in Fayetteville. | ||||||
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1840 |
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| John Mackey serves as postmaster for the Philopolis post office. | ||||||
| Saint Andrews Methodist Church is founded. | ||||||
| Cumberland County’s population is 15,284. | ||||||
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1841 |
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| Beaver Creek Campground Church located on Campground Road in north-west Cumberland County is founded. In 1861 it becomes Camp Ground Church. | ||||||
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1845 |
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| Fayetteville's second Great Fire (June 6, 1845). | ||||||
| The Fayetteville Library Institute is chartered. | ||||||
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1847 |
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| First telegraph line through Cumberland County was between north and south crossing the Cape Fear River at McNeill's Bridge and going south across Rockfish at Davis Bridge. | ||||||
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1848 |
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| Bethany Methodist Church is founded in north-east Cumberland County as Camp Ground Church. In 1852 it becomes Bethany Methodist. | ||||||
| Flea Hill Church on Middle Road becomes Salem Methodist Church. | ||||||
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1849 |
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| Work begins on the first plank road from Fayetteville to Salem. | ||||||
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1850 |
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| First area toll house erected on Fayetteville-Little River Plank Road. | ||||||
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The Town of Cumberland is settled. Known as Beaver Creek for the stream on which it is located until 1899 when it was incorporated. |
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The population of Cumberland County is 20,610. |
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1854 |
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| Warren Winslow, Speaker of the North Carolina Senate in 1854, becomes acting Governor for 25 days (December 6, 1854 – January 1, 1855) when Governor David Reid becomes a U.S. Senator. | ||||||
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