FAYETTEVILLE - THE HISTORIC SCENE OF EX-SENATOR DAVIS' WEDDING
Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, California), Friday, March 23, 1883
Contact: Myrtle Bridges May 3, 2016

	Fayetteville, N.C., March 14th.-Tokay, Colonel Green's beautiful home, where the wedding of ex-Senator David Davis 
took place, lies in a great bend of the Cape Fear River, three miles from Fayetteville. The house, of wood, covers much 
ground and is encircled with broad verandahs. It lies in the midst of a vineyard of the famous "scuppernong" and other 
grapes, this vineyard being the most notable in all the South. Fayetteville is one of the oldest towns in the State, and 
as "Cross Creek" was settled by the Scotch Highlanders, who came over with Flora MacDonald in 1745. The home of Flora 
MacDonald was but two miles from the present mansion of Colonel Green, and there yet remains, it is said, the stone lintel 
of the door of her house. The section is historic ground, and loved of Scotchmen the world over. Relics of '45 are abundant, 
every other family being of Highland descent. In years gone by, Fayetteville was the most important place in the State, and 
was for some years the capital. By it runs the Cape Fear River, whose outlet is near Wilmington. 
	The section was until 1860 the center of the turpentine industry, and half-burned and decayed forests of pine reach 
mile on mile over that country, without a landmark, save at Fayetteville, where there are bold bluffs. On one of these 
stood the largest United States arsenal in the South, which was captured in 1861, and destroyed by General Sherman in 1865, 
when Fayetteville was well-nigh destroyed. The river runs between deep banks. From Colonel Green's house the view is 
well-nigh illimitable, the vast forest of pine stretching, with slight interruptions, almost to the coast. Fayetteville, 
now so greatly decayed, is reached by a small branch railroad which leaves Raleigh and Autusta Railroad at a point sixty 
miles south of Raleigh, and it is hence an out-of-the-way place. Special trains both ways became therefore a necessity 
for the bridal party.-Special to Chicago Tribune.