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
A large portion of Old Wire Road — the section from Mission Boulevard north almost to Old Missouri Road — is where the first telegraph line into Arkansas and Fayetteville was strung in 1860, connecting communication from St. Louis to Fayetteville and soon after to Fort Smith. The route originally followed part of the Military … More Old Wire Road
National Cemetery was established in 1867 and is the resting place of veterans from every American war. … More National Cemetery
This early academy was about a quarter mile north of Mud Creek, fairly near the present-day intersection of College Avenue and Joyce Boulevard. … More Clear Creek Academy
The southeast corner of the Fayetteville Square appears to have been referred to as the “Blue Corner” in the early 1860s due to a commodities firm of the same name at that corner that promised to give “the highest cash prices for all kinds of Produce, or the full value of your money in goods.” … More ‘Blue Corner’
A “Dutch Brewery” is mentioned in 1869 as being near the National Cemetery on the south side of Fayetteville.
Fayetteville became a forward post of the Confederate Army soon after the state’s secession, and John Henry Brown began publishing a newspaper in Fayetteville. … More The War Bulletin
The acrostic below, published in 1861 along with acrostics for each of the states, presidents and many cities, was written by Robert Blackwell. An acrostic is a poem or combination of words, the first letters of which spell out a message or name, in this case "Fayetteville." The lithograph above was published with poem, although … More An 1861 Acrostic Poem for Fayetteville
New York HeraldNov. 6, 1862Page 1 A writer for the New York Herald traveling with General John Schofield filed this report after Fayetteville was recaptured in late 1862, a month before the Battle of Prairie Grove. INTERESTING FROM ARKANSAS. Movements of the Army of the Frontier.Success of Gen. Schofield’s Plans.Advance Upon and Capture of Fayetteville.Destruction … More Schofield Captures Fayetteville
New York TimesFeb. 28, 1862Page 1 This news brief ran in the New York Times and relates a short-lived occupation of Fayetteville by Union forces during the Civil War in early 1862. Within a couple of weeks, Union troops moved back out of Fayetteville closer to their own supply lines near the Missouri border. Less … More Curtis at Fayetteville