Fayetteville, North Carolina

Center tile of floor of the Market House which served as a town market until 1906

Liberty Point in Fayetteville, where the "Liberty Point Resolves" were signed in June 1775

The Cool Spring Tavern, built in 1788, is the oldest structure in Fayetteville. Most earlier structures were destroyed by the "great fire" of 1831.

The Confederate arsenal in Fayetteville was destroyed in March 1865 by Union Gen. William T. Sherman during the Civil War.

Children working in the Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills in Fayetteville, 1914. Photo by Lewis Hine.

Fayetteville becomes the first "Sanctuary for Soldiers".

The Cape Fear River Trail is designated as part of the East Coast Greenway, a series of urban trails and greenways that will eventually connect from Maine to Key West, Florida.

One of the downtown side streets with shops and restaurants

Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum in the restored 1890 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Depot

The historic Fayetteville Amtrak station

City in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

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Cape Fear River

191.08 mi long blackwater river in east central North Carolina.

The Cape Fear River at Smith Creek in Wilmington, NC.

The port in Wilmington on the Cape Fear River estuary

Lock and Dam No. 1 on the Cape Fear River in Bladen County

U.S. Coast Guard vessel on the Cape Fear, photographed from the USS North Carolina

A cargo ship navigating the mouth of the Cape Fear River at Southport

Sunset over the Cape Fear River flowing under the S. Thomas Rhodes Bridge.

Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in Wilmington is the highest in North Carolina.

It flows southeast past Lillington, Fayetteville, and Elizabethtown, then receives the Black River approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Wilmington.

Cumberland County, North Carolina

County located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

Its county seat is Fayetteville.

Hope Mills, North Carolina

Town in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

Hope Mills is located in western Cumberland County at 34.97056°N, -78.95667°W (34.970679, −78.956603), south of Fayetteville, the county seat.

Fort Bragg

Military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world by population, with around 54,000 military personnel.

One of the signs at an entrance to the post

The Special Warfare Memorial Statue by Donald De Lue (1968) at Fort Bragg

An Army Special Forces operator with his customized M4 carbine prepares to breach an entryway while training in close quarters battle tactics at Fort Bragg, mid 1999

Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division with their M4s training on Fort Bragg, December 2005

Barracks of the 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg

It is located within Cumberland, Hoke, Harnett, and Moore counties and borders the towns of Fayetteville, Spring Lake, and Southern Pines.

Pope Field

Soldiers from the US Army 82nd Airborne Division prepare for a mass parachute jump from US Air Force C-130J Hercules during an exercise at Pope Field in 2013.

C-130E Serial 63-7876 of the 41st Tactical Airlift Squadron during the Vietnam War.

"Flying Tiger" General Dynamics F-16C Block 40E Fighting Falcon Serial 89-2008 of the 74th Fighter Squadron.

"Flying Tiger" Lockheed C-130E-LM Hercules Serial 63-7846 of the 41st Airlift Squadron.

Pope Field is a U.S. military facility located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the central business district of Fayetteville, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

Spring Lake, North Carolina

Town in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.

It is bordered to the south by the city of Fayetteville, the Cumberland County seat, to the west by Hoke and Moore counties, and to the north by Harnett County.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.

Clockwise from top left: NC State bell tower, Confederate monument at the North Carolina State Capitol (now removed), houses in Boylan Heights, houses in Historic Oakwood, statue of Sir Walter Raleigh, skyline of the downtown, Fayetteville Street, and the warehouse district

North Carolina State Capitol, c.1861; Governor David S. Reid is in the foreground

North Carolina State Treasurers Office in State Capitol, c.1890s

The Raleigh skyline with crepe myrtle trees in bloom 2017

The towers at North Hills, in Midtown Raleigh.

Dorton Arena in Raleigh, designed by Matthew Nowicki

Ducks swimming at Durant Nature Reserve in the Fall

Light snow in downtown Raleigh along Hillsborough street 2015

Map of racial distribution in Raleigh, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

The SECU Daily Planet, part of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Nature Research Center

Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2008

The Videri Chocolate Factory in the Warehouse District

A college student walks her dog at Lake Johnson in the Fall

Memorial Bell Tower at North Carolina State University

Students walk through the brickyard between classes at North Carolina State University.

Estey Hall on the campus of Shaw University

Main Building on the campus of William Peace University

Raleigh Charter High School main entrance

Amtrak's Carolinian, pulling into Raleigh's train station

CAT bus on Hillsborough Street in Downtown Raleigh

From 1789 to 1794, when Raleigh was being built, the state capital was Fayetteville.

Wilmington, North Carolina

Port city and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States.

The Bellamy Mansion draws many tourists annually to downtown.

U.S. Courthouse, the backdrop of Andy Griffith's Matlock television series

U. S. Post Office in downtown Wilmington

Cannon firing at a reenactment of the Battle of Forks Road near the Cameron Art Museum in February 2009

Wilmington National Cemetery has markers dating to the American Revolution and the American Civil War.

1918 panorama of Wilmington's waterfront

PPD building in Northern downtown Wilmington

Across from the Bellamy Mansion is the First Baptist Church, established in 1808.

Grace United Methodist Church, established in 1797

Barstow, California, distance sign, as seen from I-40 in Wilmington

The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge (foreground) carries US 17 Business, US 76 and US 421 across the Cape Fear River

Wilmington City Hall, with movie crews filming in July 2012

The Graystone Inn, a bed and breakfast with colonial architecture, is located in downtown Wilmington

Iconic arches on the campus of University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW)

The USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial, seen from downtown Wilmington across the Cape Fear River

The Railroad Museum is located behind the Hilton Hotel.

The battleship USS North Carolina from the Wilmington Riverwalk

Regular boat lines served Fayetteville, and packet lines traveled to northern ports.

Raeford, North Carolina

City in Hoke County, North Carolina, United States.

U.S. Route 401 runs through the north and west sides of Raeford, leading east 22 mi to Fayetteville and southwest 20 mi to Laurinburg.

Province of North Carolina

Province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 (p.

An orthographic projection of the world, highlighting North Carolina (green).

The Province of Carolina before and after the split into north and south

The Governor's Palace, Newbern, seat of both houses of the General Assembly of North Carolina

Major towns during this period included: Bath (chartered in 1705), Brunswick (founded after 1726, destroyed during the Revolution), Campbellton (established in 1762), Edenton (chartered in 1712), Halifax (chartered in 1757), Hillsborough (1754), Newbern (settled in 1710, chartered in 1723), Salisbury (chartered in 1753), and Wilmington (founded in 1732, chartered in 1739 or 1740).