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With Arkansas being relatively sparsely populated, this arrangement worked well until 1997, when the phone numbers in area code 501 were in danger of being used up. Area code 870 was created in April 1997 to serve the most rural parts of the state (originally specifically not Little Rock metro, Fort Smith or Northwest Arkansas). In January 2002 ...
The Lewis Brothers Building currently holds the Main Branch of the Bank of Fayetteville. The Lewis Brother Building located directly south of the Old Bank Of Fayetteville Building was constructed in 1908. Built in the Queen Anne and Classic revival styles, the building housed the Lewis Brothers Hardware Store from 1912. [3]
Area codes 870 and 327 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for southern, eastern, and most of northern Arkansas. 870 was created on April 14, 1997, in a split from area code 501, Arkansas's original area code of 1947, and 327 was added as part of an overlay complex in 2024.
Due to Arkansas' relatively low population density, 501 remained the sole area code for the state until 1995, when area code 870 was created to serve north-central, northeast, eastern and southern Arkansas. In 2002, the northwestern part of the state, including Fort Smith and Fayetteville, was split off with area code 479.
The University of Arkansas was founded in Fayetteville in 1871 as Arkansas Industrial University. [109] The land-grant/space-grant, high-activity research institution is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System. [110] Enrollment for the 2010 fall semester was 21,406 total students. [111]
The Frisco Depot (Frisco being a common shortening of the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway) in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a railroad depot built in 1925. The last passenger trains left Frisco Depot in 1965, and starting in 2011, the depot's interior houses a Chipotle Mexican Grill . [ 2 ]
Lafayette Gregg, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court 1868–1874, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Washington County 1854–1856; Grant Hodges, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for Benton County since 2015; former Fayetteville resident
After relations and space grew tighter, the County Judge ordered the sheriff to evict all City of Fayetteville workers from their offices in 1927. The city appealed to the Circuit Judge, who sided with the county. The Fayetteville-occupied offices were emptied by 1928, but structural problems continued to plague the building.