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1980-2004
Footnotes
Students from St. Avold, France, visit their sister city in May 2002.
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In 1993, St. Avold, France, became the "sister city" of Fayetteville.
"Raney," a production at the Cape Fear Regional Theatre in 1990, was the theater's first world premiere. The drama was based on the 1985 novel by North Carolina writer Clyde Edgerton.
The Central Business District Loop was at one time referred to as "the road to nowhere" because of the delay in completion. It was later renamed the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway.
In 1981, Dr. Lucile Hutaff, a retired physician and philanthropist, donated more than $500,000 to establish the Cumberland Community Foundation.
In 1984, workers building the Olde Fayetteville Commons transit mall unearthed part of a plank road, a pre-Civil War water system and cast-iron tracks from trolleys that were used decades before. The black cast-iron planters lining downtown streets were nicknamed 'Hurley Pots' for Bill Hurley, the mayor when they were installed as part of the $3 million downtown transit mall.
In 1990, gasoline prices jumped 20 cents or more a gallon in less than a week after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1980 Census
County: 247,160
White: 65 percent
Nonwhite: 35 percent
Fayetteville: 59,507
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1990 Census
County: 274,566
White: 57 percent
Black: 38 percent
Hispanic: 5 percent
Fayetteville: 75,850
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2000 Census
County: 302,963
White: 58 percent
Black: 35 percent
Hispanic: 7 percent
Fayetteville: 121,015
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