About Fayetteville
Fayetteville celebrates "Lick Skillet Days" every year in September to commemorate the time when it was known by that name. Latecomers to picnics and celebrations where told to "lick the skillet" after the food had all been eaten. You have to admit it's better than "Get-here-earlier-next-year-Days."
Today, even as a tourist attraction with antique stores, cafes and bed & breakfasts, Fayetteville retains its hometown charm. It's increasingly hard to find the 19th century combination of church bells, mockingbirds, the chiming of the courthouse clock, train horns and coyotes.
There is no "wrong side of the tracks" in Fayetteville. The railroad curves around Fayetteville with four crossings. Regular engineers politely "feather" their horns at night, but when a substitute engineer fills in - the whole town knows it. At one time four passenger trains a day went through Fayetteville, including World War II Prisoner-of-War trains.
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