Editing Fayetteville, Texas (section)

==History==
The town is located in an area that was originally granted to Alex Thompson and George Cumberland.  Fayetteville's first immigrant settlers were the families headed by John Crier, James Cummins, and James J. Ross, three of the [[Old Three Hundred]]. The settlement began at the location of a [[stagecoach]] stop on an old road between [[San Felipe, Texas|San Felipe]] and [[Bastrop, Texas|Bastrop]].

Even though Fayette County was named after [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|General Lafayette]], the Revolutionary War hero,<!--Irrelevant information follows: (initially the Marquis de Lafayette until June 1790, when he permanently renounced both the nobility and aristocratic titles<ref name=Niles>''Niles' Weekly Register'', Baltimore, June 26, 1824; LAFAYETTE <br />(Before Lafayette's arrival in New York City on August 15, 1824. In an 1818, book preface to ''Olive Branch'', Lafayette's close friend and protégé Mathew Carey wrote of Nile's, "the best periodical work ever published in America")<br />"I have taken the liberty to strike out 'the marquis' and say 'general' LaFayette: seeing that he himself has disavowed the title, it is to be hoped the republicans of the United States will not offend him by heaping the senseless thing upon him"</ref>) ...end comment--> the community was named in 1844 after [[Fayetteville, North Carolina]], the birthplace of Philip J. Shaver, a prominent citizen who had surveyed the community, named its streets, and donated lots for the Fayetteville Academy and the town's multidenominational Union Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/fayetteville-tx-fayette-county|title=Fayetteville, TX (Fayette County)|publisher=[[Handbook of Texas]]|access-date=November 3, 2023}}</ref>
 
Fayetteville was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] in 1882.

The town made national news during [[World War I]]. As reprinted by ''[[Stars and Stripes (newspaper)|Stars and Stripes]]'' in its March 15, 1918 issue, the town's mayor, W. C. Langlotz, and ten of the town's citizens were [[Espionage Act of 1917|charged with espionage]]. They were arrested following the display of the [[Flag of Germany|flag]] of the [[German Empire]] over the entryway of the Germania club in Fayetteville. The mayor said the flag had been displayed by mistake and the group pleaded "not guilty".

The majority of the area within the town boundaries was designated the [[Fayetteville Historic District (Fayetteville, Texas)|Fayetteville Historic District]] and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on July 10, 2008.<ref name=nrhpdoc/>