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Fayetteville (City and countyseat) (II)

a city and countyseat of Cumberland co., N. C.; on Cape Fear river, and on the Aberdeen and Rockfish and the Atlantic Coast Line railroads; 80 miles N. W. of Wilmington.

It contains a high school, military academy, a State Colored Normal School, a bank, and several newspapers. It has manufactories of edge tools, carriages, wooden ware, flour, turpentine, cotton, etc. On April 22, 1861, the Confederates seized the United States arsenal at this point. General Sherman occupied the town March 11-14, 1865, and destroyed the arsenal. Pop. (1910) 7,045; (1920) 8,877.