Selected Milestones in Cumberland County's History:
1754 - 2004
|
|
Selected Milestones in Cumberland County's History: 1754 - 2004 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1855 |
||||||
| Harnett County is formed from Cumberland County. | ||||||
|
1858 |
||||||
| Duncan McRae, while running for Governor, represents William Brookfield in his effort to secure his freedom (Brookfield v. Stanton 51 N.C. 156). | ||||||
| The Fayetteville Gas Company is organized. | ||||||
|
1860 |
||||||
| Cumberland County has 55 free Negro apprentices. 34 Negroes own real estate and 112 are property holders. | ||||||
| The county’s total population is 16,369 | ||||||
|
1863 |
||||||
| The Town of Falcon, located in north-east Cumberland County on Mingo Swamp is founded. | ||||||
| Post office is established here in 1893. Incorporated in 1913. | ||||||
|
1865 |
||||||
| On March 11th, Union forces under General William T. Sherman destroys the federal Arsenal at Fayetteville. | ||||||
|
|
||||||
|
1866 |
||||||
| One room log cabin school for children opens in Wade. | ||||||
|
1867 |
||||||
| The Howard Graded School is founded. | ||||||
|
|
||||||
|
1868 |
||||||
| John Sinclair Leary (African American) is elected to Legislature of North Carolina. | ||||||
|
The novel Dolores is published. This fictionalized story by Dr. Benjamin Robinson is based the famous Ann Simpson trial that took place in Fayetteville in 1850. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
Hiram Revels, a native of Fayetteville was one of three blacks to sit in the U.S. Senate when he was elected in his adopted state of Mississippi to complete a term begun by Jefferson Davis. Revels was an educator, minister and state senator during his lifetime. |
||||||
|
1870 |
||||||
| The 1870 population for Cumberland County is 17,035. | ||||||
|
1871 |
||||||
| Fayetteville’s Knights of Pythias (a fraternal order) is founded. | ||||||
|
1873 |
||||||
| Winfield T. Fisher serves as postmaster of the Bluff Factory Post Office. | ||||||
| Marvin Methodist Church is founded. | ||||||
|
1874 |
||||||
| Part of Bladen County is annexed to Cumberland County. | ||||||
|
1875 |
||||||
| Young Men’s Christian Association of Big Rockfish Church is operating in Cumberland County. | ||||||
|
Parkers Grove Methodist Church in Linden is founded. |
||||||
|
1876 |
||||||
| Black’s Chapel Methodist Church in north-east Cumberland County is founded. | ||||||
|
1877 |
||||||
| The Town of Godwin in north-east Cumberland County is settled. Named for Isaac W. Godwin who gave the railroad right-of-way. Incorporated in 1905. | ||||||
| Charles Chesnutt becomes first black to publish a story in the Atlantic Monthly magazine. | ||||||
| Fayetteville Normal School (FSU) becomes North Carolina’s the first state-supported school for blacks. | ||||||
|
|
||||||
|
1878 |
||||||
| First public graded school opens in Fayetteville. It was located off Highway 53. | ||||||
| John Leary serves from 1878-1882 as a school committee man for both white and colored schools. | ||||||
|
1880 |
||||||
| Robert Harris, first principal of Fayetteville Normal School appoints Charles Waddell Chesnutt to succeed him as principal. Normal School is located on the second floor of the Howard School. | ||||||
|
|
||||||
| The first cottonseed oil mill in Cumberland County is operating on Captain David Jones’ farm. It is located near the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Bridge. | ||||||
| Cumberland County’s population has grown to 23,836 | ||||||
| John Leary serves as a delegate to the National Republican Convention. | ||||||
|
1883 |
||||||
| E.E. Smith is chosen principal of the Fayetteville State Normal School. He held the position until 1933. | ||||||
|
|
||||||
| Campbellton Mission located at 511 Person Street is founded. Becomes Person Street Methodist Church in 1911. | ||||||
|
1885 |
||||||
| Gardner’s Methodist Church on Rosehill Road is founded at Gardners School House. | ||||||
|
1886 |
||||||
| Frank Porter Graham is born on October 14th at Fuller House on Raleigh Road. He became a U.S. Senator and president of the University of North Carolina. | ||||||
|
1888 |
||||||
| Daniel D. Bain is postmaster at Cornelia from 1888-1904. | ||||||
|
1889 |
||||||
| The Town of Wade is incorporated. Named for N.G. Wade. | ||||||
| Historical Sketch of the Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville by A.L. Phillips is published. | ||||||
|
1890 |
||||||
| Effie E. McGill is postmaster of the Bannockburn post office. | ||||||
| Dr. P.N. Melchor became Fayetteville’s first black physician in the 1890s. | ||||||
| Archibald Carmichael serves as postmaster of the Carmichael post office from 1890-1895. | ||||||
| County’s population is 27,321 | ||||||
|
1891 |
||||||
| The Town of Hope Mills, known as Rockfish before the Civil War is incorporated. | ||||||
|
1893 |
||||||
| First local school tax levied. | ||||||
|
1894 |
||||||
| Telephone charter granted in Fayetteville on November 1st. | ||||||
| The “Book Club” is organized. | ||||||
|
1895 |
||||||
| Manchester, town in north-west Cumberland County on Little River is incorporated. | ||||||
|
1900 |
||||||
| Sarah C. Draughan is postmaster for the Draughan Post Office from 1900 -1914. | ||||||
| According to the census the population for Cumberland County is 29,249 | ||||||
| Charles Chesnutt‘s The House Behind the Cedars is published. | ||||||
|
1901 |
||||||
| Hope Mills Methodist Church on Legion Road is founded. | ||||||
| The Cotton Post office is operated by Edward D. Snead from 1901-1914. | ||||||
|
1903 |
||||||
| B.T. McBride elected Superintendent of Cumberland County Schools. | ||||||
|
1904 |
||||||
| Lewis Chapel Church is founded on April 27th. | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
