Professor Tom Paradise and University of Arkansas students went through the records of the Harvey House company, which operated restaurants, hotels and newsstands along major western railway routes, and showed that the Fayetteville Depot on Dickson Street included a Harvey House newsstand, starting about 1945 and continuing until at least 1965, when the St. Louis … More Harvey House
Susie Marshbanks Manuel, Rev. James Webb and Naomi Smith were among the Fayetteville residents who offered boarding and meals to travelers during the Jim Crow era. … More Safe Harbor During Jim Crow Era
Not long after an Arkansas stage line was proposed to be started between Altus and Fayetteville, Dudley Emerson Jones, a Little Rock trustee of the Arkansas Industrial University (University of Arkansas), sent a letter to the Arkansas Gazette exhorting people along the stage company's route to support the company. The Gazette published the letter on … More Stage Line Established from Altus to Fayetteville
Soon after a stagecoach operation started between Altus and Fayetteville, James H. Van Hoose made the journey north and sent back a note to the Arkansas Gazette, which published the note on October 8, 1875: The Road to Fayetteville. Editor Gazette: Permit me through your columns to say to the traveling public that the stage … More Another Letter about the Road to Fayetteville
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