Evolution of Fayetteville

The earliest known inhabitants of the hardwood forest of the Ozarks migrated to Arkansas over 12 thousand years ago through the Great Bering Strait. For the next two thousand years Bluff Dwellers hunted the mountain plateaus before the Quapaws, Cherokee ...

Fayetteville Center Square

The Fayetteville Square served as the location of the Washington County courthouse from 1837 to 1904, when a new courthouse was built facing Center Street on College Avenue. Title to the public square (Block 27) was conveyed to the United ...

Significant Dates in Fayetteville History

Significant dates in Fayetteville history include: Incorporated town in 1836; Old Wire road from Jefferson City, Mo. to Ft. Smith cut in 1835; Washington County Fair first held on the Square in 1856; first telegraph installed around 1860; Butterfield Stage ...

Fayetteville's Earliest Methodist Church

Fayettevilles’ earliest

Methodist Church

Stood on this site

1840 – 1899

The Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville was organized in 1832. The modest frame building of 1840, destroyed by fire during the Civil War, was replaced by a brick structure in 1868 as the ...

Battle of Fayetteville

Defense and Retreat

During the Civil War, Fort Scammon stood in front of you on the hill behind the courthouse. There, on September 10, 1862, Union Col. Edward Siber and the 1,500 men of his 37th Ohio Infantry defended Fayetteville against ...

Fayetteville

In the attack on Federal forces here, 1863. Milton W. Humphreys, the educator and soldier, gunner of Bryan's Battery, 13th Virginia Light Artillery, C.S.A., first used “indirect firing,” now in universal military use.

Marker is on North Court Street (West Virginia ...

The Fayetteville Observer

Oldest N.C. newspaper still being published. Begun 1816 as weekly; daily since 1896. E. J. Hale, editor, 1824-1865.

Marker is at the intersection of Whitfield Street and Camden Road (North Carolina Route 1003), on the right when traveling west on Whitfield ...

Fayetteville State University

Est. 1867 as Howard School. State-supported since 1877. A part of The University of North Carolina since 1972.

Marker is at the intersection of Murchison Road (North Carolina Route 210) and Coley Drive, on the left when traveling south on Murchison ...

Fayetteville Arsenal

"Batter . . . into piles of rubble"

[Preface at top left]

The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was ...

The Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Company

F. I. L. I.

[Front]

Whereas in obedience to President George Washington's Militia Act and the threat of war with European powers, the F.I.L.I. was organized on or near this spot on August 23, 1793, under the leadership of Captain Robert Adam, ...