Confederate Women's Home

The Confederate Women's Home opened in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1915.^[1] 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 United Daughters of the Confederacy.^[1][2] Smith served as the first superintendent of the home.^[1] It was built as a group home for the benefit of widows and daughters of North Carolina's Confederate veterans of the American Civil War.^[1][3] The North Carolina General Assembly appropriated $10,000 for building purposes and $5,000 annually for maintenance of the residence.^[4]

By 1981, only seven women lived in the home.^[1] It was closed by the North Carolina Department of Human Resources and sold to the Fayetteville City Board of Education.^[1] In 1982, the home was demolished and the land was used as a parking lot for Terry Sanford High School.^[4] In 1986, a historical marker was placed on the site.^[5]

Sixty-five women are buried in the Confederate Women's Home Cemetery.^[1]

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