Site of Civil War Arsenal - Fayetteville, AR - U.S. Civil War Sites on Waymarking.com

County of Marker: Washington County
Location of Marker: College Ave. & Dickson St., Fayetteville
Marker Erected by: First Baptist Church Historical Committee
Date Marker Erected: 2000

Marker Text:

SITE OF CIVIL WAR ARSENAL T.B. Van Horne, first pastor of First Baptist Church, founded Fayetteville Female Institute on this site in 1858. Later rechartered in 1861 as Northwest Arkansas Baptist Female Institute, it housed a Federal Arsenal which was destroyed by military action in 1862.

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"February 25 – Hearing word that the Union army in Missouri is moving south toward Fayetteville, General Benjamin McCulloch orders Confederate forces under his command to burn all the commercial buildings, military stores and vacant houses in Fayetteville. Most of the buildings on the square are set afire. The Fayetteville Female Institute, which had been used as an arsenal, is burned. Exploding shells and ammunition from it land on the roofs of houses and Arkansas College, but residents contain the fires." ~ The Civil War in Fayetteville

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