‘Uptown’
January 22, 2026
During a brief period in the 1920s, “uptown” was used — primarily by university students — to refer to the Fayetteville Square while “downtown” referred to Dickson Street. In 1972, the Fayetteville School District opened an alternative school near the southeast corner of West Avenue and Spring Street and named it Uptown School, suggesting that … More ‘Uptown’