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Fayetteville is a city in Fayette County, Texas, roughly halfway between Austin and Houston. The population was 274 at the 2010 census. The town is about twelve miles east of La Grange and U.S. Highway 77; it is about twelve miles north of Borden and Interstate 10. ==History== 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 and Bastrop. Even though Fayette County was named after General Lafayette, a Revolutionary War hero (initially Marquis de Lafayette until June 1790, when he permanently renounced both the nobility and aristocratic titles"〔Niles' Weekly Register, BALTIMORE, June 26, 1824; LAFAYETTE (before Lafayette’s arrival in NYC 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") "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"〕), however, the community become Fayetteville in honor of someone else. According to the ''Handbook of Texas'', in 1844 the community was named after the North Carolina birthplace of a prominent citizen of the time, who had surveyed the community, named its streets, and donated lots for the Fayetteville Academy and the town's multidenominational Union Church. Fayetteville was incorporated in 1882. The town made national news during World War I. As reprinted by ''Stars and Stripes'' in its March 15, 1918 issue, the town's mayor, W. C. Langlotz, and ten of the town's citizens were charged with espionage. They were arrested following the display of the flag of the German Empire over the entry of the Germania club in Fayetteville. The group pleaded "not guilty": the mayor said the flag had been displayed by mistake. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fayetteville, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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