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1830-1854
Footnotes
The school term was five months and the tuition was $10 to $15 at a new Classical and English school at Rockfish in 1849.
During 1854, the Fayetteville Mutual Insurance Co. issued 524 policies.
In 1854, bids were requested for a new Presbyterian church at Bethel. The building was designed to be 55 feet long and 45 feet wide.
In 1851, there were 825 post offices in North Carolina and 17 in Cumberland County, which at that time included Harnett County.
During the 1850s, passengers were charged $4 to travel from Fayetteville to Raleigh by stagecoach.
The cost to deliver a baby in 1850 was $15, according to the account books of Dr. Ben Robinson.
In 1854, the Fayetteville Female Seminary, or 'high school,' was built on Hay Street. It was the latest school to be developed exclusively for girls in Cumberland County, starting with the first one in 1813.
Fayetteville and Northern Plank Road had an annual dividend of 12 percent in 1855.
Dray (cart) charges were higher for coming up the hill from the Cape Fear River than going downhill to the river.
In 1850, J.T. Wadill advertised William's Rectified Whiskey for 75 cents a gallon.
In 1855, the value of land under assessment in Cumberland County was $1,244,247.
1830 Census
County: 14,834
White: 61 percent
Nonwhite: 39 percent
Slaves: 5,507
Free blacks: 686
Fayetteville: 2,868
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1840 Census
County: 15,284
White: 59 percent
Nonwhite: 41 percent
Slaves: 5,392
Free blacks: 862
Fayetteville: 4,285
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1850 Census
County: 20,610
White: 60 percent
Nonwhite: 40 percent
Slaves: 7,217
Free blacks: 946
Fayetteville: 4,646
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