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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]
Buildings and structures in Fayetteville, Arkansas (3 C, 12 P) C. Culture of Fayetteville, Arkansas (4 C, 4 P) E. Education in Fayetteville, Arkansas (1 C, 7 P) P.
[11] [12] Parker Rushing of Fayetteville led the Arkansas State League with 96 hits in the shortened season. [11] Parker Rushing was a student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and retired after two seasons of professional baseball. He operated the Rushing Plumbing Company in Fayetteville until his death in 1969.
The history of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette goes back to the earliest days of territorial Arkansas. William E. Woodruff arrived at the territorial capital at Arkansas Post in late 1819 on a dugout canoe with a second-hand wooden press. He cranked out the first edition of the Arkansas Gazette on November 20, 1819, 17 years before Arkansas ...
In 2006, Sports Illustrated ranked Fayetteville High School in the nation's Top 20 High School Athletic Programs, [9] stating: "Located across the street from the University of Arkansas, this school has won a state-best 24 titles in 10 sports since 1996. The Purple Bulldogs’ girls’ gymnastics team has won eight straight state championships ...
The 1991–92 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team represented the University of Arkansas in the 1991–92 college basketball season. The head coach was Nolan Richardson , serving for his seventh year.
This historic courthouse first became a reality when County Judge Millard Berry was elected into office in 1900. He was aware of the need for a new courthouse, and when the Courthouse and Jail Committee of the Levying Court deemed the current 1868 brick courthouse "unfitted for the business of the county, unsafe and not worthy of repair", the Judge proposed raising money for a new building.
The following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).