Raeford Road VA Outpatient Clinic

We offer our Veterans the following services at the Raeford Road VA Clinic. Audiology and speech, Laboratory and pathology, Mental health care, Physical therapy, occupational therapy and kinesiotherapy and Primary care.      

About Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteville’s growth during the last fifty years has produced an ambivalent response.  During the 1960s, Fayetteville’s main street, Hay Street, with it strip joints and bars that catered to the military, was considered sleazy, and with the Vietnam War in full swing, the city was derogatorily called “Fayttenam.”  By the 1980s, Hay Street had been revitalized, but it has not yet rebounded to surpass the sales of the suburban strip malls and shopping centers.  Today, over one hundred subdivisions, including King’s Grant, Tallywood, Vanstory Hills, and numerous shopping plazas and malls dot the map of Fayetteville.  Some of the first retailing complexes were Eutaw Shopping Center, constructed on Bragg Boulevard in 1948, Boudreaux Shopping Center, built on a former vineyard in the 1950s, and the Westwood Shopping Center, erected in the 1960s.    The large and indoor Cross Creek Mall opened in 1976.  In all, the city’s retail sales have skyrocketed during the post-war years: $44 million in 1948, a half billion in 1972, and one billion in 1982.The increase in sales reveals the constant population growth of the city.  In 1930 Fayetteville’s population was 13,309.  By 1940 the population grew to 17,428, (forty-percent African American). Population growth also resulted from the city expanding its boundaries; after the post-World War II suburban sprawl, city leaders decided to annex over a hundred subdivisions.  In 1980, Fayetteville residents numbered 60,000 and their number more than doubled to 121,015 by 2005 and comprised North Carolina’s sixth largest city.

In addition to its service industry and military bases and growing population, Fayetteville is known for its institutions of higher education.  Founded in 1867 to educate freed slaves, Fayetteville State University, has a current enrollment slightly surpassing 5,000 and offers numerous graduate programs.  Methodist College, a four–year liberal arts college established in 1960, educates approximately 2,000 students.  Fayetteville Technical Community College opened its doors in 1960 and now has over 7,000 full and part-time students.

Fayetteville is also known for its cultural arts.  Following World War II, the city formed the Fayetteville Symphony in 1957, and the Fayetteville Little Symphony in 1962.  The Fayetteville Museum of Art was established in 1972.  Fayetteville can boast of several radio stations, two television stations, and the Fayetteville Observer, founded in 1835 and the state’s oldest operating periodical.  Fayetteville is also home to the Cape Fear Museum of History and the recently opened Airborne and Special Operations Museum in downtown Fayetteville.