The Fayetteville Station for the Butterfield Stage was a relay station with facilities for crew and stock changes. Butterfield owned some five acres east of the marker site on the 1905 Courthouse at College Avenue and Center Street. This acreage contained a spring and pasture for stock.

John Butterfield's son Charles and his wife Mary managed this station and operated a hotel built by Butterfield on the site.

Bibliography:
Drivers Guide to the Butterfield Overland Mail Route, Volume 1 by Kirby Sanders

Click here for a map to Butterfield Fayetteville site.