Most of Fayetteville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1991. Its Register listings are the Welch-Averiett House and the William Watters House. Below: maps from 1915 on.
Founding year: the first Fayetteville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Fayetteville’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fayetteville is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fayetteville’s overall grade.
Alabama towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Alabama town has 2.7 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Fayetteville’s 52.0 sits above most of its state (76% of Alabama towns have fewer) while its 6 historic buildings outnumber those of 72% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to A−. The pre-1940 share (±2.1 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Fayetteville’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Fayetteville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Fayetteville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, Fayetteville had a population of 1,422. The following is found on a sign erected by the Alabama Historical Association: "In 1814, Tennessee Troops joined Andrew Jackson's force which won the Creek Indian War. After Indian removal in 1836, these veterans brought their families here, named this community for their old home in Tennessee. Fayetteville Academy was built in 1850." In 1920, a new high school was built in the Fayetteville community called Fayetteville High School.
Its first post office opened in 1837. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,284 to 1,422 (+11%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
By decade
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The Fayetteville post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Fayetteville rank for history?
Fayetteville is more historic than 52% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Fayetteville?
Two places: the Welch-Averiett House (listed 1986) and the William Watters House (1987).
How old are the homes in Fayetteville?
0.0% of Fayetteville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.1 points), against a typical 3.2% for an Alabama town; the median home was built in 1991.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
