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Photo submitted by Weeks Parker The Fayetteville Police Department wore British Bobby-style uniforms from the 1800's through 1920. Pictured standing are Captain W. H. Flowers & Abb Byrd. Seated are Robert W. Powers & James Herbert Benton who later became Chief of Police until his untimely murder on February 23, 1908. The A. A. MacKethan buggy and wagon business was started in 1882 and was first called the MacKethan & Gardner Carriage Factory. Later it was called MacKethan & Sons Carriage Manufactury. This factory occupied a group of buildings on the corner of Person and Dick Streets on property that is now used by the Cumberland County Courthouse as a parking lot. early 1900's, it was not uncommon to see carts and wagons with wood or produce for sale around the Market In the late 1800's, and even into the last few years many of the buildings on the left of this picture have been restored by the Historic Fayetteville Foundation. This historic section of town is called Liberty Row. Weeks Parker submitted this 1893 drawing of the third LaFayette Hotel which was located on the site of the present Robert C. Williams Business Center on the corner of Hay and Donaldson Streets. It is interesting that the tower for the Business Center building was erected on the exact site of the old LaFayette Hotel tower that was destroyed by fire in 1939. House. The boy in the photograph is attempting to sell firewood from his oxcart for fifty cents a load. In the On March 4, 1825, The Fayetteville Independendent Light Infantry [FILI] marched down a very muddy Person Street to the Clarendon Covered Bridge where they met and escorted General Marquis de LaFayette, Fayetteville's namesake, to the town hall where a speech of welcome was made by Judge Toomer. A military ball was given in LaFayette's honor at the newly built LaFayette Hotel on the south east corner of Donaldson and Hay Streets. [This was the first of three LaFayette Hotels in that area]. 50 | September/October • 2012

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