1805-1829
At the beginning of the 19th century, the central question for Cumberland County, with Fayetteville as its commercial hub, amounted to this: What can we build here, establish here, to secure future growth and prosperity in this rural region? It was not an easy question, then as now.
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John MacRae's 1825 map of Fayetteville
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'Thus have valuable improvements in navigation and facilities afforded by the removal of obstructions in the river, given us here 100 miles from the ocean, all the advantages of a sea-port town.'
-- An 1823 report in The Carolina Observer, describing some successful clearing work and dredging on the lower Cape Fear River, which enabled goods to reach Fayetteville within 10 days after being shipped from New York
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'He is no longer in 1825, a stripling of 19 but a mature man of 67, wearing a black wig and somewhat battered from the hardships of a crowded life, but still vivacious, with extremely courtly manners. A young man of fortune leaves his wife and family and crosses oceans at his own expense to subject himself to all the horrors and perils of war for the love of liberty'
-- Dr. Archibald Henderson, recounting the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Fayetteville
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'The election was carried by Storm. But I never saw a fair Election for Town Member since I lived in Town for twenty years past.'
-- Jesse Potts, a Jeffersonian party loyalist, commenting on a disputed election in Fayetteville in 1810
'This to the poorer classes of people in the community will be of essential service, and we really rejoice in these times of scarcity and economic distress that a way is open in which the industrious poor can find profitable employment.'
-- An 1826 article, in the Fayetteville Journal on the opening of the McNeill-Donaldson cotton mill
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