FAYETTEVILLE, a town of the United States, capital of Cumberland co., North Carolina, is situated on Cape Fear River, 100 miles N.W. of Wilmington. It has cotton manufactures, and, on account of the large pine forests in its neighbourhood, a considerable trade in timber, tar, and turpentine. It was settled in 1762, received its present name· in 1784, was partly destroyed by fire in 1831, and was taken by the Union army in March 1865. Population in 1870, 4660, of whom 2318 were coloured.