The school districts in Fayetteville and Charleston were the first in the Old Southern to integrate their high schools. … More Fayetteville Vote Set Integration in Motion Across South
Carnall Hall was built in 1906 as the first women’s residence hall at the University of Arkansas. … More Inn at Carnall Hall
Westside Elementary School opened in 1921 on the north side of Stone Street. In 1951, it was converted to become the Fayetteville School District offices and still serves in that capacity. Students attending West Side were transferred to the then-new T.L. Bates Elementary nearby.
The following are school names associated with Fayetteville places, broken up category. Higher Education Public School Districts The following districts have covered parts of present-day Fayetteville at one time or another. Since these districts were created, school districts have been consolidated and a present-day school district elsewhere in Arkansas may now hold a particular district … More Schools
The first fieldhouse at the University of Arkansas became known as “Schmidt’s Barn” for the athletic director and coach Francis Schmidt. The structure had originally been created for an automotive sales showroom in Fayetteville. The famed cowboy humorist Will Rogers spoke at the fieldhouse twice, joking on the second occasion that he was glad to … More ‘Schmidt’s Barn’
In 1942, the old University of Arkansas field house, known colloquially as “Schmidt’s Barn,” was disassembled and rebuilt on the west side of the first Fayetteville High School, which was on School Avenue at the time. The Fayetteville School Board named the auditorium for F.S. Root, the retiring superintendent of the Fayetteville School District from … More Root Auditorium
The New School was founded in 1971 by Bill Mandrell and a group of local families to provide pre-school education. It originally used a room of the ANL medical lab, owned by the Nettleship family. From 1973 to 1979, it operated out of a daycare space at Leverett Gardens, an apartment complex at the northern … More New School
Mount Zion School, District 2, was established in 1871 or 1872 and was on Old Farmington Road. … More Mount Zion School
Ann James, a teacher at the Fayetteville Female Seminary, left that position to start a female seminary in the Mount Comfort community in 1848, complementing the male Ozark Institute that had been operating since 1845. James was born in London, England, the daughter of missionary parents. She came to America in the mid-1840s, joining family … More Mount Comfort Female Seminary
The Meadow Valley School, District 98, was originally located at the intersection of Porter Road and Mount Comfort Road. There are some unifications it was moved to a site near the present-day Agri Park. Land for the early school may have been provided by the Deane family, which owned and worked more than 300 acres … More Meadow Valley School