Murchison Road's namesake likely owned slaves. Now some are suggesting a change.
No one knows for sure when the dirt path wandering north from downtown Fayetteville started being called Murchison Road. Nothing much existed out that way before 1908, when the school that would become Fayetteville State University started building a campus.But there’s little doubt about where the road’s name most likely originated: the Murchisons, a Scottish family who settled in what’s now Spring Lake on the eve of the Revolutionary War.Within three generations, the […]
