Cumberland County Courthouse in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Mar 12, 2016 Sat0

Laurie and I like riding our Gold Wing motorcycle. But it is easy to get into a rut and just ride the same roads. So to force ourselves to ride to places we would not normally visit we made a goal to visit and photograph all 100 North Carolina courthouses within 1 year.

As usual, we got a little behind. We started in July 2015 and finished 99 out of 100 by June 2018. The last courthouse was in our home county of Wake and it took us until Feb 2021 to get that final one. But we made it! This blog is about one of those visits.

Many NC courthouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The nomination form has some interesting facts about the various courthouse styles over the years.






Courthouse Information


Wikipedia says the following about the courthouse:

Cumberland County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted architect Harry Barton and built in 1925-1926. It is a three-story, rectangular, Classical Revival style building sheathed in ashlar veneer.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.






County Information


The North Carolina History Project lists the following information for this county:

Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, victor of the Battle of Culloden that ended the Jacobite Rising, is the namesake of the Coastal Region area known today as Cumberland County. Originally part of Bladen County, Cumberland County was drawn by the Colonial Legislature in 1754.

In 1778, Campbellton, combined with the Cross Creek district, was named the county's original seat, but in 1783 the seat was renamed Fayetteville out of a local adulation for Marquis de LaFayette, the famous French general who fought alongside George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Fayetteville is the largest city within Cumberland County, but there are several other communities within the county: Hope Mills, Linden, Falcon, Spring Lake, Godwin, Wade, and Stedman.

The most considerable addition to the county arrived in 1919: Camp Bragg. Named after the famous Confederate General Braxton Bragg, Camp (eventually Fort) Bragg became a noteworthy part of the Cumberland County region. As the military base grew, Fayetteville and the surrounding area experienced substantial economic growth; more troops meant more families and more demand for goods and services. Today, Fort Bragg is one of the largest military bases in the United States.

There are several museums and historical sites within the county. The Averasboro Battlefield and Museum commemorates one of the last battles of the Civil War while the Museum of the Cape Fear presents a history ranging from the Paleo-Indians all the way into the early-twentieth century. Also, the Fayetteville Airborne and Special Operations Museum along with the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum provides a view into Fort Bragg's extensive history.






Our Experience


I had no clue that Fayetteville was named for Marquis de LaFayette. We also took some time to check out the Market House. I have lived in Wake County, North Carolina for 35 years and never visited the Market House. I can now mark that off my bucket list. The Market House is always shown in any news report from Fayetteville.

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