Editing Fayetteville, Georgia (section)

==History==
Fayetteville was founded in 1822 as the seat of the newly formed Fayette County, organized by European Americans from territory ceded by force the [[Muscogee|Creek people]] under a treaty with the United States during the early period of [[Indian removal]] from the [[Southeastern United States|Southeast]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}. Both city and county were named in honor of the Revolutionary War hero the French [[Marquis de Lafayette]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Luckett |first1=Robert |title=Fayetteville |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/fayetteville/ |website=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=University of Georgia Press |access-date=7 December 2022 |ref=New Georgia Encyclopedia - Fayetteville}}</ref> Fayetteville was incorporated as a town in 1823 and as a city in 1902.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA229 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=229| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

The area was developed for [[cotton]] plantations, with labor provided by [[Slavery in the United States|enslaved]] African Americans, who for more than a century comprised the majority of the county's population. Fayetteville became the trading town for the agricultural area.

In the first half of the 20th century, as agriculture became more mechanized, many African-American workers left the area in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] to northern and midwestern industrial cities, which had more jobs and offered less oppressive social conditions.

A reverse migration has brought new residents to the South{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}, and the city of Fayetteville has grown markedly since 1980, as has the county. The city's population increased from 2715 in 1980 to 18,957 in 2020.<ref name="USCensusEst2015">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2015/SUB-EST2015.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160602200744/http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2015/SUB-EST2015.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 2, 2016 |title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015 |access-date=July 2, 2016 }}</ref>