FAYETTEVILLE
Cumberland County Seat • North Carolina
Fayetteville Incorporated in 1783
Fayetteville has several nicknames: All-American City, City of Dogwoods, Fayettenam, The Ville, 2-6 and The Soldier City. Fayetteville is the home of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.
Fort Bragg is the backbone of the county’s economy. Fort Bragg and Pope Field pump about $4.5 billion a year into the region’s economy. This makes Fayetteville one of the best retail markets in the country.
Judy Clay (1938-2001), born in St. Pauls, NC and raised in Fayetteville, was an American Hero, role model, soul and gospel singer beginning in the in 1950s. She made her recording debut with the group better known as The Sweet Inspirations – on their 1954 album, The Newport Spiritual Stars.
She made her first solo recording, “More Than You Know”, on Ember Records. In 1967, Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records teamed her up with white singer-songwriter Billy Vera to make the United States’ first racially integrated duo, and The Sweet Inspirations, to record “Storybook Children”.
The record made No. 20 on the US R&B chart and No. 54 pop. It was seen as the first interracial duo recording for a major label. Later, she worked as a backing vocalist with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Donny Hathaway and Wilson Pickett.
In May of 1968, the singing duo of Billy Vera and soul-diva Judy Clay entered the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City to sing together as the first Black woman and white guy teaming up together to sing live on stage in America. At this history-making event they sang, “Storybook Children” to the “shock” and delight of the all-Black audience who stood to their feet with delight.
They were America’s first interracial singing duo to hit the Billboard Charts. Singing live for the first time with five shows a day for seven days. This coincided with African American Music Month in the US. This was a pioneering event in America’s history.
Local Fayetteville entrepreneurs have created business opportunities in the Cumberland County area. With the help of local business leaders, the demand for startup ventures and the need for more goods and services has ignited the spirit of local business ownership in the community.
Fayetteville has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League three times. Fayetteville serves as the region’s hub for retail, shops, restaurants, services, lodging, health care and entertainment.
A free Black preacher name Henry Evans is locally known as the “Father of Methodism”. In 1796, Henry Evans is credited with building the first church in Fayetteville, called the African Meeting House. Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church is named in his honor.
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