The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA.
- 1780 - Methodist Church established.[1]
- 1783 - Cross Creek and Campbellton combine to become the town of "Fayetteville."
- 1789
- November 21: North Carolina convention ratifies the U.S. Constitution.
- Fayetteville Gazette newspaper begins publication.[3]
- Fayetteville becomes capital of the state of North Carolina; State House built.
- 1793 - Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry established.[1]
- 1794
- Legislature moves to Raleigh.
- Fayetteville Library Society incorporated.[4][5]
- 1799 - Fayetteville Seminary founded.[1]
- 1820 - Population: 3,532.[6]
- 1830
- Fayetteville Female Society of Industry established.[1]
- Population: 2,868.[6]
- 1831 - May 29: Fire.[1]
- 1840 - Population: 4,285.[6]
- 1845
- June 6: Fire.[1]
- Fayetteville Library Institute founded.[1]
- 1858 - Fayetteville Gas Company established.[1]
- 1865 - March 14: Fayetteville occupied by Union Army.
- 1871 - Knights of Pythias established.[1]
- 1877 - "State normal school for negroes" established.
- 1899 - Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce formed.
"Fayetteville, North Carolina". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. "(Fayetteville)". This Day in North Carolina History. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
- R.H. Long (1863), "Fayetteville", Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States, Pittsburgh, Pa.: John P. Hunt
- Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Fayetteville". North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. p. 196+ – via Open Library.
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- John Oates. The Story of Fayetteville and the Upper Cape Fear (Fayetteville, 1981)
- Fred Whitted (2000). Fayetteville, North Carolina. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
- Roy Parker Jr. (2006), "Fayetteville", in William S. Powell (ed.), Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press
- Raj Chetty; Nathaniel Hendren (2015), City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood, Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, archived from the original on 2015-05-06,
Rank #100: Fayetteville, North Carolina