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Cumberland County, North Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
71historic places
—earliest paper
1754formed
334,728pop. 2020
19cemeteries
1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 71 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Fayetteville, Grays Creek, Hope Mills.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Cumberland titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

52 of 71 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

71 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad StationFayettevilleBuilding1982
Barge's TavernFayettevilleBuilding1983
Belden-Horne HouseFayettevilleBuilding1972
Big Rockfish Presbyterian ChurchHope MillsBuilding1983
BrownleaFayettevilleBuilding2003
Camp Ground Methodist ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1983
Cape Fear Baptist ChurchGrays CreekBuilding1983
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Passenger DepotFayettevilleBuilding1983
Capitol, TheFayettevilleBuilding2005
Carolina TheaterFayettevilleBuilding1983
Confederate BreastworksFayettevilleSite1981
Cool Spring PlaceFayettevilleBuilding1972
Cool SpringsCarvers CreekBuilding1985
Cross Creek Cemetery Number OneFayettevilleDistrict1998
Cumberland County CourthouseFayettevilleBuilding1979
Davis, John, HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Devane-MacQueen HouseGrays CreekBuilding1983
EllerslieLindenBuilding1974
Evans Metropolitan AME Zion ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1983
Falcon TabernacleFalconBuilding1983
Fayetteville Downtown Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1999
Fayetteville Ice and Manufacturing Company:Plant and Engineer's HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Fayetteville Mutual Insurance Company BuildingFayettevilleBuilding1983
Fayetteville Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict2012
Fayetteville Women's Club and Oval BallroomFayettevilleBuilding1973
First Baptist ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1983
First Presbyterian ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1976
Gully MillFayettevilleBuilding1983
Hangars 4 and 5, Pope Air Force BaseFayettevilleBuilding1991
Hay Street Methodist ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1983
Haymount DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1983
Haymount Historic District (Boundary Increase)FayettevilleDistrict2007
Holt-Harrison HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Hope Mills Historic DistrictHope MillsDistrict1985
Kyle HouseFayettevilleBuilding1972
Liberty RowFayettevilleDistrict1973
Long Valley FarmSpring LakeDistrict1994
M & O Chevrolet CompanyFayettevilleBuilding1983
Mansard Roof HouseFayettevilleBuilding1973
Market House NHLFayettevilleBuilding1970
Market House Square DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1983
Massey Hill High SchoolFayettevilleBuilding2004
Maxwell HouseStedmanBuilding1985
McArthur-Council HouseGrays CreekBuilding1983
McCall HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
McDiarmid, William, HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
McLean, Henry, HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Nimocks HouseFayettevilleBuilding1972
North Carolina Arsenal SiteFayettevilleSite1983
Oak GroveErwinBuilding1973
Oates, John A., HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Old Bluff Presbyterian ChurchWadeBuilding1974
Orange Street SchoolFayettevilleBuilding1987
Patterson, John E., HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Phoenix Masonic Lodge No. 8FayettevilleBuilding1983
Poe, Edgar Allan, HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Pope Air Force Base Historic DistrictFayettevilleDistrict1991
Prince Charles HotelFayettevilleBuilding1983
Sedberry-Holmes HouseFayettevilleBuilding1975
Seventy-First Consolidated SchoolFayettevilleBuilding2004
Smith, Dr. Ezekiel Ezra, HouseFayettevilleBuilding2015
St. John's Episcopal ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1974
St. Joseph's Episcopal ChurchFayettevilleBuilding1982
Stedman, Frank H., HouseFayettevilleBuilding2002
Strange, Robert, Country HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
Taylor-Utley HouseFayettevilleBuilding1983
U.S. Post OfficeFayettevilleBuilding1983
Verdery, Dr. William C., HouseFayettevilleBuilding2007
Waddill's StoreFayettevilleBuilding1983
WestlawnFayettevilleBuilding1980
Williams, Robert, HouseEastoverBuilding1983

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Cumberland was formed in 1754 (1754-02-19) from Bladen.

CUMBERLAND created from BLADEN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Cumberland County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

335k172k8,671179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
8,6719,26414,44615,28416,36923,83629,24935,06459,32096,006148,418247,160302,963334,728

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

19 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed
NameLatLon
Adcox Cemetery34.97794-78.95642
Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery35.19146-78.64976
Black's Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery35.22368-78.66215
Cogdell Cemetery34.86127-78.79335
Cross Creek Cemetery35.0585-78.87169
Cumberland Cemetery35.00627-78.98225
Evans Cemetery34.96211-78.83975
Falcon Memorial Cemetery35.19166-78.65742
Fisher Cemetery35.02183-78.70085
Fort Bragg Main Post Cemetary35.15729-78.969
Lafayette Memorial Cemetery35.08932-78.88002
McCall Cemetery35.0207-78.67519
McMillan Cemetery34.85548-78.90279
Parnell Cemetery34.87627-78.91641
Rockfish Memorial Park34.971-78.91114
Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery35.15894-78.9709
Westminster Cemetery35.19701-78.74449
Williams Cemetery35.10863-78.69556
Willis Creek Cemetery34.84683-78.84724

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

BattlefieldStudy acresDist.Site ID
Averasborough4,76526.6 kmNC019

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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