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unusual facts about Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metropolitan Area



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.

Cheswick, Pennsylvania

Cheswick is bordered by Acmetonia in Harmar Township on the west, by Springdale Township on the north, by Springdale Borough on the east, and by Plum Borough on the south (across the Allegheny River).

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 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.

Fayetteville Municipal Airport

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

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.

James Hatfield

On July 18, 2001, Hatfield's body was found by a hotel housekeeper in room 312 at a Days Inn in Springdale, Arkansas, an apparent suicide by prescription drug overdose.

John Morgan Bright

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

Joker's Favor

The note the Joker has that says Charlie has changed his name to Don Wallace lists his address as 12 Marigold Lane, Springdale, Ohio a city near Cincinnati; however his area code is listed as 614, which is the Columbus, Ohio area code.

Two years later, Charlie (who has changed his name to Don Wallace and moved to Springdale, Ohio with his wife and son) receives a phone call from the Joker, who wants Charlie to make good on his promise, saying his men are watching the house.

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.

KSBN

KWOG, a television station (channel 57 analog/39 digital) licensed to Springdale, Arkansas, United States, which used the call sign KSBN-TV from August 1993 to March 2007

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.).

Logans Ferry Mine Tunnel

The Logans Ferry Mine Tunnel consists of a pair of abandoned coal tunnels under the Allegheny River between Plum and Springdale, Pennsylvania in the United States.

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

Paula Haydar

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

Rachel Carson House

Rachel Carson Homestead, Rachel Carson's birthplace and childhood home in Springdale, Pennsylvania, also listed on the NRHP as Rachel Carson House

Red Rock Film Festival

Held annually in November, in St. George, Ivins, and Springdale by Zion National Park, the festival introduces the area to new international and US independent film.

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.

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.

Springdale Mall

Springdale Mall both inside and out was featured in a motorcycle chase sequence in the 1994 film Raw Justice.

Springdale, Iowa

Its most famous residents were the militant abolitionist John Brown, who resided at John Hunt Painter's house near Springdale while making preparations for the raid on Harpers Ferry, and Edwin and Barclay Coppock, local youths who participated with Brown during the raid.

Springdale, Ohio

In the episode Joker's Favor of Batman: The Animated Series, Charlie Collins moves to Springdale as part of the witness relocation program in an attempt to flee from The Joker.

Springdale, Oregon

Springdale School at the intersection of the historic highway and Bell Road also served as the Springdale Community Center.

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.

Younkin-Dake Mullicoupe

Jim Younkin of Springdale, Arkansas completed a frame of this aircraft in 1989 and a homebuilt model earlier in 1985 with the help from Bud Dake.


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