The Confederate Women's Home was a

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for the widows and daughters of

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and

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veterans from North Carolina. It was opened in 1915 by the

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and received $5,000 a year from the

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to cover maintenance costs. The home was demolished in 1982.

History

The Confederate Women's Home opened in

in 1915. The two-story brick facility was originally proposed by Mrs. Hunter G. Smith in 1908, at the state convention of the North Carolina Division of the

. Smith served as the first superintendent of the home. It was built as a

for the benefit of widows and daughters of North Carolina's

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veterans of the

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. The

appropriated $10,000 for building purposes and $5,000 annually for maintenance of the residence. By 1981, only seven women lived in the home. It was closed b the North Carolina Department of Human Resources and sold to the Fayetteville City Board of Education. In 1982, the home was demolished and the land was used as a parking lot for

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. In 1986, a

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was placed on the site. Sixty-five women are buried in the Confederate Women's Home Cemetery.

References

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