FAYETTEVILLE, a city of north-western Arkansas, U.S.A., in the heart of the beautiful Ozark mountains, at an altitude of I,5ooft.; the county seat of Washington county and the seat of the State university. It is on Federal highway 71, and is served by the Frisco Lines. The population was 5,362 in 1920; 193o it was 7,394. The University of Arkansas (established 1871) had in 1927-28 an enrolment of over 1,70o in the colleges and 7,00o in other courses. Its School of Medicine is at Little Rock, and its Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal school (for negroes) is at Pine Bluff. Mount Sequoyah, at the eastern edge of town, is the meeting place of the Western Methodist Assembly. A settlement was made here between 182o and 1825, which in 1828, when the county was created, became the county seat, under the name of Washington Courthouse, changing its name to Fayette ville in 1829. It was incorporated in 1841; received a city charter in 1859, which was abolished by act of the legislature in 1867; was re-incorporated as a town in 1869; and in 1906 again became a city. At the opening of the Civil War the sympathies of the citizens were mainly with the Confederate cause. The town was raided by Federal cavalry on July 14, 1862, and was occupied by Federal troops later in the year. It was attacked by Confederate cavalry April 18, 1863, but they were driven off ; was burned in Aug. 1863 ; and was shelled by a detachment of Gen. Price's army on Nov. 3, 1864. A National cemetery here contains graves, and a Confederate cemetery, 725.