Also known as the Tebbetts House, this frame home with Greek revival design was built in 1853 by Matilda and Jonas March Tebbetts as their family home in Fayetteville. Its design was the same as the William Baxter House, which stood across Dickson Street at about the location of the present-day Washington County Courthouse. Jonas … More Headquarters House
The Reiff House on Center Street, built in 1857, and as it looked in the mid-1900s. Today, it is home to Moore’s Funeral Home. … More Reiff House
A Song by Ferdinand Zellner Ferdinand F. Zellner, a music teacher at the Fayetteville Female Seminary, wrote two pieces of music that were published in 1856 by Balmer & Weber, a well respected publishing house in St. Louis, Mo. The better known of the two compositions, certainly in Fayetteville, is the “Fayetteville Polka,” believed to … More Sunbeam Schottisch
The following report was submitted to the federal agent to the Creek Nation by Robert Graham, president of Arkansas College to explain how funds allocated by the government had been used. More Creeks attended the college in the years that followed, including George Washington Grayson, who later served as principal chief of the Creek Nation. … More Report of Indian Affairs from Arkansas College
The author John Rollin Ridge, raised in Fayetteville, went west during the gold rush and became a writer and editor of note in California. … More John Rollin Ridge Goes West
The ArkansianSaturday, March 12, 1859Volume 1, Issue 2Page 2, Column 2 The Arkansian newspaper published this description of the Fayetteville after a new charter was approved for organization of the city government. FAYETTEVILLE A CITY. The town of Fayetteville is no more. No mighty tornado has swept over the spot on which it stood; no … More News of a City Charter
By Waterman L. Ormsby, only through passenger on the first westbound stage Edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum The Huntington Library, San Marino, California Sixth Printing, 1968 Copyright 1942 The following was written by Waterman L. Ormsby during his journey from St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, on the first westbound … More The Butterfield Overland Mail
The Butterfield Overland Mail Co. began operations through Northwest Arkansas in September 1858 and continued with its transcontinental stagecoach operation until the advent of the Civil War. The stagecoach line, which carried mail and passengers from St. Louis, Mo., to San Francisco, Calif., in under 26 days, proved to be one of many economic stimuli … More Butterfield Trail
During the 1850s, Arkansas College opens, Ferdinand Zellner writes the first music to be published by an Arkansan, a county fair is organized and the Butterfield Overland Mail begins operations through Fayetteville. … More Timeline – 1850s