2nd floor, Headquarters Library
300 Maiden Lane
Fayetteville, NC 28301-5000

Wanda Hunter
Local & State History Manager
(910) 483-7727, ext. 308
whunter@cumberland.lib.nc.us

Biography File Holdings
To see the names of people in our Biography Files, click here.

Index to Fayetteville's Local Newspapers - 1982 Find a 1982 article online. Come to the Local & State History Room to view the entire article on microfilm.

Index to Fayetteville's Local Newspapers - 1983 Find a 1983 article online. Come to the Local & State History Room to view the entire article on microfilm.

The Local & State History Room houses two collections, North Carolina Reference and Genealogy Reference.

These collections consist of books, maps, pamphlets, newspapers, census records, microfilm, and photographs.

Almost anything concerning North Carolina and Cumberland County, past or present, can be found here.

All materials, including rare books and maps, are available for use in the library only; they cannot be checked out.

In-depth research cannot be performed by Library Staff, but a list of researchers in the area is available upon request.

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Photocopies
The photocopy machine makes single copies at 15 cents per page. With the purchase of a copy card, each page costs 10 cents.

Microform copies
Microfilm and microfiche can be copied on reader-printers. Each copy costs one dime. (The reader-printers accept dimes only.)

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Newspaper articles, pamphlets, and other non-book materials of special interest are arranged alphabetically in file folders. The drawers holding these folders are divided into three major sections: Cumberland County, Fayetteville, and North Carolina.

Subjects within each section include history, biography, government, and a wide variety of other items of state or local significance. Many of these files contain materials which may not be found anywhere else. To see a list of the biography files, click here.

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More than 50 current North Carolina magazines, newsletters, and bulletins.
Current titles include:

• Cumberland Chronicles
• Our State
• Popular Government
• North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal
• Business North Carolina
• Wildlife in North Carolina
• North Carolina Historical Review
  

Newspapers:

• The Fayetteville Observer
• The News & Observer (Raleigh)
• The Carolina Times (weekly)
• Independent Weekly

Back Issues of Newspapers on microfilm:

• The Fayetteville Observer (1816 - )
• Raleigh's News & Observer (1979 - )
• Hope Mills' Cumberland County Outlook (1978 - 1983)
• Various Fayetteville newspapers dating back to the 18th century

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A wide variety of Maps:

• Modern maps of Cumberland County and the state of North Carolina
• Historical maps of Fayetteville, Cumberland County and North Carolina
• Department of Transportation maps for all 100 counties
• Geological Survey maps of Cumberland County and some North Carolina cities
• Garland Stout Historical maps with indexes for most counties in North Carolina

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Statistical Information, both current and historical

Data is available for population, health and vital statistics, climate, crime, education, employment and much more.

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Unearth the truth about your family's past using the resources in this room, such as:

"How-to" manuals help beginning genealogists in their research and explain how to document their findings.

Some of the tools you'll use are census indexes, bibliographies, and family histories.

The Cumberland County Core Collection on microfilm contains court records, deeds, marriage bonds and other county records dating from the 18th century.

Federal Censuses (1790-1930) are available on microfilm for all North Carolina Counties.

In the 1870s the Southern Claims Commission reviewed the claims of Southerners - both African Americans and whites - who had furnished supplies for the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War. These historical documents are available here on microfilm.

Current and back issues of genealogical society newsletters housed in this room are also useful for family history researchers.

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The Jack Crane Collection is an extensive collection of local and state history
donated by the family of Jack Crane, a noted local historian and genealogist.
View index of subjects in this collection

Lucile Miller Johson Papers
If you are doing genealogical research, this collection will enlighten your knowledge of people as well as local and state history.
View index to Lucile Miller Johnson Papers

See additional online indexes

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Fayetteville City Directories dating from 1906 and Fayetteville Telephone Books dating from the early 1950s offer valuable information to local historians and researchers. These books provide a chronology of names of local people, business establishments and other places such as churches and schools.

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