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Anderson, Missouri

It is part of the FayettevilleSpringdaleRogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Arkansas Diamonds

The team was first owned by Samir Haj a youth club coach based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Battle of Monroe's Crossroads

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation.

Beebe High School

The baseball Badgers defeated Monticello High by a score of 6-2 in the Class 5A state championship game, which was played at Baum Stadium, located on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.

Bentonville Train Station

The routing changed around 1880, and the Frisco instead ran through Avoca, Lowell, and Rogers before entering Fayetteville, missing Bentonville entirely.

Blazer's Scouts

Colonel Carr B. White organized the original cavalry company (initially known as the Brigade Scouts or Spencer's Scouts) at Fayetteville, West Virginia, in mid-September 1863.

Cumberland County Crown Coliseum

During the early stages of its construction, Fayetteville’s Crown Coliseum was mentioned as a possible temporary home for the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, but this was blocked by minor-league hockey executive Bill Coffey who had signed an exclusive lease agreement with the arena for the Fayetteville Force of the Central Hockey League.

E. B. Teague

During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.

Fayetteville Academy

Today, the Fayetteville Academy is the only non-secular private school in Cumberland County.

Fayetteville Arsenal

Upon the fall of the arsenal at Harpers Ferry to Union forces plans were made to relocate the rifle making machinery from that location to new workshops at the Fayetteville Arsenal.

Bladen County Representative James McKay introduced House Resolution #374 for inclusion of an arsenal at Fayetteville.

Fayetteville Municipal Airport

Fayetteville Municipal Airport (North Carolina), now known as Fayetteville Regional Airport, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States (FAA: FAY)

Fayetteville Municipal Airport (Arkansas), also known as Drake Field, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States (FAA: FYV)

Fayetteville Township, Washington County, Arkansas

As a result of the expansion of Fayetteville, the boundaries have become gerrymandered and follow the major routes as they leave town.

Fayetteville, Tennessee

Lincoln County was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln, second in command of the U.S. Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.

Fayetteville, Texas

As reprinted by Stars and Stripes in its March 15, 1918 issue, the town's mayor, W. C. Langlotz, and ten of the town's citizens were charged with espionage.

According to the Handbook of Texas, in 1844 the community was named after the North Carolina birthplace of a prominent citizen of the time, who had surveyed the community, named its streets, and donated lots for the Fayetteville Academy and the town's multidenominational Union Church.

George C. Sibley

Later on, Sibley moved with his mother to Fayetteville, North Carolina where he received his education and apprenticed as a bookkeeper in the counting house of John Winslow.

Indiana State Road 158

The road winds to the east through the small towns of Fayetteville and Eureka.

John Morgan Bright

Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, Bright was the son of James and Nancy Morgan Bright.

Jon Woods

Restricted by term limits that allow only 3 terms in the House of Representatives, Woods decided to run for the Arkansas State Senate from District 7, which includes most of Springdale, Johnson, Tontitown, Goshen, Elkins, Durham and parts of Fayetteville and all of eastern Washington County.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Kerron Clement

On March 12, 2005, representing the University of Florida, he broke the indoor world record for the 400-meter sprint at the NCAA indoor championships in Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas with a time of 44.57 seconds.

LHA Charitable Trust

In order to fund the monthly cost of the soup kitchen, Lha has partnered with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States (U.S.).

March F. Riddle Center

The March F. Riddle Center is a multi-purpose arena on the campus of Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Noholme

A successful stallion at Goff's Verna Lea Farm in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1967 he was syndicated for $1-million and moved to Robin's Nest Farm near Ocala, Florida then in 1974 to the nearby stud farm owned by Dan Lasater (now Southland Farm) where he died on 17 May 1983 at the age of 27.

Northwest Regional Airport

Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Fayetteville/Springdale, Arkansas, United States

Ozarks Electric Cooperative

Ozarks Electric Cooperative Corporation is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with district offices in Springdale, Arkansas, Stilwell, Oklahoma, and Westville, Oklahoma.

Paula Haydar

She is married to fellow academic Adnan Haydar and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Ryan Solle

Solle grew up in Broadway, North Carolina, played club soccer for the Fayetteville Force with whom he won three consecutive North Carolina state championships (1999, 2000 and 2001), and attended Lee County High School in Sanford, North Carolina, where he was selected as a 2003 Parade Magazine High School All American.

Samuel D. Purviance

He was member of the State house of commons in 1798 and 1799; member of the State senate from Cumberland County in 1801; trustee of Fayetteville Academy in 1803; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); continued the practice of law in Fayetteville; died on the Red River in 1806, while on an exploring expedition into the West.

Silver Service

The Silver Meteor takes a coastal route through Fayetteville, North Carolina, Florence and Charleston, South Carolina, while the Silver Star takes an inland route through Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina, and Camden and Columbia, South Carolina.

Southwest City, Missouri

It is part of the FayettevilleSpringdaleRogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located in the southwestern corner of the state of Missouri.

Speer Morgan

Morgan attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1966, as well as the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he received a BA in 1968.

V. E. Howard

Howard, at the age of eighty-six in 1995, on the advice of his physicians, transferred theInternational Gospel Hour to the West Fayetteville Church of Christ in Fayetteville in Lincoln County in southern Tennessee, under the minister Winford Claiborne.

WFAY

Jack Lee bought WFAI in 1960, and his "Open Mike" may have been the first talk show in Fayetteville.

WFLB

Don Curtis purchased the stations in 1968, and WEWO-FM became a Christian radio station called WSTS, The station received a power increase to 100,000 watts to reach Fayetteville.

Whaleyville, Virginia

The Lumber Mill at Whaleyville closed in 1919, and moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina.

William Barry Grove

A trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the president of the Fayetteville Branch of the Bank of the United States, Grove was elected to the Second United States Congress in 1790; he was re-elected to the 3rd through 7th Congresses as a Federalist, serving consecutively from March 4, 1791 to March 3, 1803.


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