Moving - Fayetteville, North Carolina

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A Brief History of Fayetteville, North Carolina

In 1783, two early settlements, Campbellton and Cross Creek, converged and were named Fayetteville. Dozens of U.S. cities and counties have been named after the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette, but Fayetteville was the first, and it is told, the only one he actually visited. The Frenchman arrived in Fayetteville by horse-drawn carriage in 1825 and was welcomed by the residents.

The original settlers of the Fayetteville area were from the highlands of Scotland. They arrived in 1739 via the Cape Fear River. The area grew as a center of government and commerce because of its location as inland port and the hub of the early "Plank Roads" system, key to overland travel from the 1840s to 1850s.
The area played a key role in developing history. The Liberty Point Resolve of 1775 pledged local support for the Revolutionary War cause of independence from England while Scottish heroine Flora MacDonald rallied for the loyalist cause. After the Revolution, with no permanent state capital, the legislature periodically met here. Meeting in Fayetteville in 1789, the legislature ratified the U.S. Constitution and chartered the University of North Carolina, America's oldest state university.