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1921 - Fayetteville YMCA, and Fayetteville Business & Professional Women's Club founded. [1] 1925 Mission of M.E. Church established. [1] Prince Charles Hotel built. 1926 - Cumberland County Courthouse built. 1927 - Carolina Theater built. 1932 - Public library established. [1] 1935 - Fayetteville Little Theatre begins operating. [1] 1939
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
The Fayetteville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is an area consisting of three counties – Cumberland, Harnett, and Hoke [2] – in eastern North Carolina, anchored by the city of Fayetteville.
The first YMCA in the United States opened on December 29, 1851, in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary.
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Henry Craft was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of Charles P. and Emeline (Kinloch) Craft.He was the grandson of William and Ellen Craft, enslaved people and abolitionists from Macon, Georgia, who became famous for their daring escape from slavery in 1848 and their 1860 book, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.
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Fayetteville has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League three times. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 208,501, [5] It is the 6th-most populous city in North Carolina. Fayetteville is in the Sandhills in the western part of the Coastal Plain region, on the Cape Fear River.