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1880-1904
Footnotes
Cumberland County was the scene of a triple hanging in 1885 as Thomas McNeill, Thomas Gee and Joseph Howard were executed for murder. It is said that the men sat on their coffins as they rode to the hanging site.
The most requested song to be played by John Philip Sousa's band at the 1889 centennial of the constitutional convention was 'Dixie.'
By the turn of the century, all the cotton factories around Fayetteville fielded company baseball teams that competed on playing fields near the plants.
In 1902, the payroll of the Hope Mills Manufacturing Co. was $237,000 yearly or about $800 a day.
In February 1903, school funds appropriated by the town and county were insufficient to continue operating the Graded School as a free system and the trustees voted to charge a tuition fee for all students who were able to pay. As a result, school attendance dropped from 487 to 190 by April.
In May 1903, two men and six women graduated from the State Colored Normal School (now Fayetteville State University).
In 1903, the annual pension for Cumberland County Confederate veterans and widows ranged from $14.50 to $60.
In 1904, 96 acres in the Carver's Creek area, including Carver's Fall, were sold undeer court order for $250 to settle the estate of Mary A. Buie.
1880 Census
County: 23,836
White: 53 percent
Nonwhite: 47 percent
Fayetteville: 3,485
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1890 Census
County: 27,321
White: 55 percent
Nonwhite: 45 percent
Fayetteville: 4,222
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1900 Census
County: 29,249
White: 57 percent
Nonwhite: 43 percent
Fayetteville: 4,670
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