Fayetteville (North Carolina)is a city, seat of Cumberland County, south central North Carolina, within the head of navigation around the Cape Fear River; integrated as being a city 1893. The city serves as a marketing and distribution center for a timber-producing and farming region. Major manufactures comprise of textiles, tires, electrical equipment, metal products, and chemicals and resins. The city is the site of Fayetteville State University (1867), Methodist College (1956), and also a community college. Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base are actually nearby. The communities of Campbellton (settled 1739) and Cross Creek (1746) had been merged in 1783 to form the town of Fayetteville, named for the marquis de Lafayette, the French general who aided the colonies in the American Revolution. The town served as the state capital from 1789 to 1793. Within 1865, during the American Civil War, Union General William Sherman occupied the area.
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