Unification and the present thumb|220px|right|Dr. Wiley S. Cozart House By this time, Fuquay Springs and Varina had become major trading hubs for southern Wake County as well as neighboring Harnett and Johnston counties. Yet improvements to automobiles and area roads caused a decline in tourism at the springs. Rather than visiting the springs, residents in the region chose to visit the coast as travel times decreased. During this time, however, the tobacco industry continued to drive the area economy, with five warehouses, a cotton buyer, and fifteen stores established by the end of the 1920s. The shared emphasis on agricultural and industrial growth brought the towns to a shared vision, and as their residents worked, played, and attended church together, the towns merged into Fuquay-Varina in 1963.
Unification and the present thumb|220px|right|Dr. Wiley S Cozart House By this time, Fuquay Springs and Varina had become major trading hubs for southern Wake County as well as neighboring Harnett and Johnston counties. Yet improvements to automobiles and area roads caused a decline in tourism at the springs. Rather than visiting the springs, residents in the region chose to visit the coast as travel times decreased. During this time however, the tobacco industry continued to drive the area economy, with five warehouses, a cotton buyer, and fifteen st,ores established by the end of the 1920s. The shared emphasis on agricultural and industrial growth brought the towns to a shared vision, and. as their residents worked, played, and attended church together, the towns merged into Fuquay-Varina in 1963.