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1905-1929

You could put aside what happened one fateful day in 1918, when the Army firmly set its sights on the Carolina Sandhills, and still consider this period through the 1920s to be full of notable developments. (Read more)

  • Picture of the 1908 Fayetteville flood
  • Footnotes | Population
  • DeVane shows mettle under fire
    The story of Duncan J. 'Dunk' DeVane in World War I is just one remarkable example of the thousands of Cumberland County residents who served their country and returned home to serve their community.

  • Bragg, Pope rise from Sandhills
    This is the story of how Fort Bragg came to be, how it was nearly abandoned and how it was made permanent.

  • Falcon a haven for children
    The Falcon Children's Home opened in 1909. It's history starts 11 years earlier.
    • NOTABLES
  • N. Hector McGeachy
  • E.E. Smith
  • Julius A. Culbreth
  • Dr. Paul N. Melchor
  • Dr. J.F. Highsmith
    CLASSIC
  • Orange Street School chalkboard
    MOMENTS IN TIME
  • 1916 Cape Fear Fair
  • 1st Falcon Camp meeting
  • Bluff Mill
    • QUOTABLE
    photo 'I remember 1918, when the flu epidemic was so bad. They were hauling people to the graveyard in the wagons.'
    -- J. McN. 'Mack' Gillis of Seventy-First Township, recalling the worldwide flu epidemic that killed millions     		'Believing that good roads are of inestimable benefit to any community and realizing that our present road system is totally inadequate to meet the increasing demands for good roads, therefore, be it resolved ... that representatives of this county in the next General Assembly session be requested to authorize an adequate good road bond issue.'
    -- A resolution of the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners, printed in the Dec. 7, 1910, edition of The Fayetteville Observer
    • Copyright 2004, The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer
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