Cumberland At 250 (North Carolina)

John Allen Shoes/SAS Shoe Store
2 Specialty Shoe Stores

Carolina Mortgage Company
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Professional Opticians
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Bordeaux Optical, Inc.
Focus on Good Eyesight

Bordeaux Drug Co.
Old Fashioned Service is Alive and Well

Harrell's Radiator & Automotive Service Center
Quit Stalling - Full Service Center

Rogers & Breece Funeral Home West
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Eastover Furniture Sales
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1955-1979

Call this the era of the big boom. Cumberland County's population continued its post-World War II explosion, with its 43 percent increase in the 1960s the largest in any of North Carolina's 100 counties. Cultural explosions also marked this period. (Read more)

Picture of anti-war march downtown

Students march for civil rights
Tensions over civil rights reached a peak in Fayetteville during the summer of 1963.

Turmoil marks Vietnam era
The war in Vietnam claimed the lives of 101 men who called Cumberland County home. But it doesn't tell half the story of Vietnam's toll on the community.

Stores follow planned freeway
Which came first? Cross Creek Mall or the All American Freeway? The two combined to turn corn and bean fields into the economic center of Cumberland County.

NOTABLES

J. McN. 'Mack' Gillis

CLASSICS

Smith football and trophy

Fire alarm ticker

MOMENT IN TIME

WFLB-TV taping

Polio vaccination

Aerial view of Spring Lake

Actors protest war

QUOTABLE
'The valiant soldier of freedom is dead. All mankind is less.' -- North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford, a former Fayetteville lawyer, on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 ' I sued the county Board of Education on the question of pupil assignment. I remember the national press asked me what kind of reception I had. I said, 'It was both discourteous and antagonistic.'' -- Fayetteville lawyer Arthur L. Lane, (pictured) recalling early efforts to end segregation in the county schools	'I felt that I owed so much to the people at the state and local level. But I probably felt closest to the youngsters.' -- Ruby Murchison, (pictured) a seventh-grade teacher at Washington Drive Junior High School, after being selected the state Teacher of the Year in 1975. She went on to win national Teacher of the Year honors in 1976 'We are loyal Americans and we will obey the law.' -- A statement from the Fayetteville Restaurant Association after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which opened restaurants, hotels and other places previously closed to blacks. The New York Times reported the statement as a sign of progress in the South, especially compared with the opposition demonstrated elsewhere
'We were scheduled to play Terry Sanford High School for the first time, a highfalutin city school whose students had already put out the word they considered us to be a bunch of river rats from the bad side of town. We wanted desperately to humble them.' -- Author Tim McLaurin, (pictured) in his autobiographical 'Keeper of the Moon,' recalling his 1971 season on the Cape Fear High School basketball team. Cape Fear beat Terry Sanford by four baskets that year, he wrote