This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Fayette County is ranked at 26th in the Midwest list of “ Best Places to Live .” Student-faculty ratio is 14: 1 ; teaching is by tenured or full-time faculty of whom nearly 75 percent have doctorate degrees ; advising is done by faculty ; there are free on-campus tutor centers ; and there are more than 40 registered fraternities, sororities, clubs and organizations on campus.

Category: Education in Fayette County, Iowa

Category: Buildings and structures in Fayette County, Iowa

* Waterloo, Fayette County, Indiana

* Columbia, Fayette County, Indiana

Category: People from Fayette County, Kentucky

In 1803 Clay was elected to serve as the representative of Fayette County in the Kentucky General Assembly.

While no deed of emancipation has been found for Aron Dupuy, in 1860 he and Charlotte were living together as free black residents in Fayette County, Kentucky.

The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), the 42nd largest in the United States, has a 2010 population of 1, 316, 100 and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette, as well as the Mississippi counties of DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica, and Crittenden County, Arkansas.

This includes the Fayette County Public Schools, employing 4, 651, and the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, employing 3, 936.

The city is served by the Fayette County Public Schools.

Before it was converted into a museum, the building was used as the Fayette County courthouse.

Another important museum is the Lexington History Center in the old Fayette County Courthouse in the heart of downtown.

The Kentucky Horse Park in Northern Fayette County hosts the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, one of the top 3 annual equestrian eventing competitions in the world.

Chronicles: A Vivid Collection of Fayette County, Pennsylvania Histories, Mechling Bookbindery.

* Fayette County ( northeast )

Clinton County was organized in 1824 out of Washington, Fayette, and Bond Counties.

Clay County was formed in 1824 out of portions of Wayne, Crawford, and Fayette counties.

They were John Allen and John Edwards ( both from Bourbon County ), Henry Lee ( Mason County ), Thomas Kennedy ( Madison County ), and Robert Todd ( Fayette County ).

A memorial to Breckinridge was placed on the Fayette County Courthouse lawn ( now known as Cheapside Park ) in Lexington in 1887.

The Fayette County Courthouse ( Ohio ) | Fayette County Courthouse

The Fayette County Courthouse is located on part of the original Vandal farm.

In 1897, the Fayette County Courthouse was completed and is a remarkable example of the Romanesque Revival architectural style.

Fayette County Courthouse

The Eastern Division, which sits in the Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse at Columbus, serves the counties of Athens, Belmont, Coshocton, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Licking, Logan, Madison, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Union, Vinton, and Washington

Alexander Dickman Hall, built in 1855, is the oldest building on the Fayette Campus and constructed of native limestone.

The Margaret Mitchell Library, built in 1948, is today the home of the Fayette County Historical Society and houses Civil War and genealogical records.

The Chicago and Paducah Railroad was at that time being built through Fayette Township in Livingston County.

Kent Burying Ground, which was built in 1880, is located in Fayette.

Between 1937 and 1943, the AFSC built the Penn-Craft community for unemployed coal miners in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

When he built it, Craig's distillery was in the territory of the original Fayette County.

The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

In 1765 Crawford built a cabin on the Braddock Road along the Youghiogheny River in what is now Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The line was only built to Fayette, Ohio, and was later split between the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.

It was renamed Lafayette County on February 16, 1825, in honor of Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de La Fayette, who was then visiting the United States.

It is named after the country estate near Paris of the Marquis de La Fayette, who visited the area in 1825.

Later the Marquis de La Fayette visited the country as the Guest of the Nation, and while doing so he stopped by Judge Wallace's mansion on May 28, 1825.

Her works, with those of Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, were edited by Etienne and Jay ( Paris, 1825 ); her novels were reprinted, with introductory matter by Lescure, in 1885 ; and her correspondence in the Lettres de Mmes.

Afterwards, Moore continued practicing law in Warrenton, Virginia and made the principal speech upon the visit of General La Fayette to the town on August 23, 1825.

In 1825, Lafayette and his son Georges Washington de La Fayette visited him at Mount Vernon.

Construction on the fort began during the War of 1812 and was finally completed in 1818, the fort originally named Fort Diamond was renamed in 1825 to celebrate the Marquis de La Fayette, a hero of the American Revolution who was returning to his native France after his year-long grand tour of the United States.