Dogwood Festival Pictures

It was hard to get good pictures at the festival due to all the people around.  I mainly took photos of the cool downtown buildings and scenary. 

     To leave the downtown area you have to go through this giant traffic circle, one lane so its not that complicated.  In the middle of the circle is this interesting building, obviously old in architecture I had assumed it was part of an old train depot.  It looked just like where they would have the ticket sales booth and benches for passangers to wait for their train to come through.  As we drove by, Anthony and Stephanie gave me the accurate history lesson.  That area was the center of Fayetteville's commerce at the time, and the particular "building" was where they would auction off the slaves to the highest bidder.  When most of downtown Fayetteville was destroyed during a skirmish in the Civil War, that part of the auction area survived as well as a few market building along Hay Street.  This little northerner assumed wrong, auction block, train station, you know same thing ;)