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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14O9_fayetteville-center-square_Fayetteville-AR.html
The Fayetteville Square served as the location of the Washington County courthouse from 1837 to 1904, when a new courthouse was built facing Center Street on College Avenue. Title to the public square (Block 27) was conveyed to the United States o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14O7_significant-dates-in-fayetteville-history_Fayetteville-AR.html
Significant dates in Fayetteville history include: Incorporated town in 1836; Old Wire road from Jefferson City, Mo. to Ft. Smith cut in 1835; Washington County Fair first held on the Square in 1856; first telegraph installed around 1860; Butterfi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14O5_fayettevilles-earliest-methodist-church_Fayetteville-AR.html
Fayettevilles' earliestMethodist ChurchStood on this site1840 - 1899The Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville was organized in 1832. The modest frame building of 1840, destroyed by fire during the Civil War, was replaced by a brick structure …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNS8_cumberland-presbyterian-church_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Site of the firstCumberland Presbyterian Church. Used as a hospital duringthe battle of PrairieGrove 1862 markedby Prairie GroveChapter U.D.C. 1930.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOQ_west-battlefield-overlook_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
(Panels from Left to Right)(First Panel):At the time of the battle, Nancy Morton lived with her parents in the William Morton house west of this location. When the fighting intensified in the area, the Mortons and three other families scrambled in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOM_29th-arkansas-infantry_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Brothers Columbus and Ad Gray of Company D, 29th Arkansas Infantry, withstood the first Union assault and counterattacked with Sergeant Ad Gray in the lead. Columbus Gray wrote home after seeing his brother fall mortally wounded:"I stopped, squatt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOG_lieutenant-colonel-john-c-black_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Black, 37th Illinois Infantry, ordered the retreat of his regiment and the 26th Indiana to a fence at the foot of the ridge. There, the men faced a Confederate counterattack. Captain William P. Black, brother of Lieutena…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOE_26th-indiana-and-37th-illinois-infantry_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
The 26th Indiana Infantry and the 37th Illinois Infantry made another attack up the ridge. Colonel John G. Clark, 26th Indiana, U.S.A., wrote:"The regiment was ... ordered on the left of the 37th Illinois...Soon after...the were ordered to charge …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOA_the-dead-of-prairie-grove_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
The men who died on this field on December 7, 1862 are buried in the soldier cemeteries in Fayetteville. 700 unknown Confederate soldiers are in the cemetery maintained by the Southern Memorial Association on East Mountain. The Union dead are in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO9_herrons-attack_Prairie-Grove-AR.html
From this spot the observer is viewing the fields over which General F.J. Herron's army advanced on the morning of December 7, 1862, to attack the Confederate position on this ridge. Because the ford of the Illinois River was under artillery fire,…
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