1858 — The first Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach rolled up to the station in Fayetteville at 11 a.m. on this day. Passengers had a chance to stretch their legs before the stage headed southwest for Fort Smith, San Francisco and points in between.
1965 — The last regularly scheduled passenger train stopped in Fayetteville on the morning of this day. M.E. Brewster was the engineer for the southbound St. Louis and San Francisco train. Among the passengers was a Fayetteville resident, W.W. Swaney, who was then 94 and who, as a child, had ridden as a passenger on the first train to enter Fayetteville in 1882.