FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) As Fayetteville city leaders continue to discuss the fate of the historical Market House, a large group of the community has voiced their support to see the building remain in place.
Both options that Dawn Adkins-Hurley, a long-time Fayetteville resident, and other community members see as a threat to the National Historic Landmark. That was the first public library, that was the first health department, it was the first Fayetteville museum of arts, it was the first USO, Adkins-Hurley said.
Adkins-Hurley has been a strong advocate for protecting the Market House, since there were calls to tear it down during the George Floyd protests in the Summer of 2020. To take the history of a building that is almost 300 years old and to hold it accountable for a very small segment of time, 33 years out of 200.