Ice Cream Social at the Tebbetts Home

Everyone is invited to the Washington County Historical Society's 38th annual Ice Cream Social this Saturday, August 18th, at Headquarters House, 118 East Dickson in Fayetteville. It runs from 4:30 until 7:30, and you can enjoy house tours, barbershop quartets, antique cars, an Attic Treasures Sale, a Silent Auction, Heritage School performers in period costumes, homemade cake, and ice cream. How cool is that! Cost is only $5 for adults and $2.50 for kids.

Headquaters House was built by my cousin, Judge Jonas March Tebbetts and his wife Matilda, in 1853, and it played an important role in Battle of Fayetteville on April 18, 1863, during the War of the Rebellion. Jonas was on the winning team in that war.

Also on the grounds, you can see the Archibald Yell Law Office, built around 1835, moved to the Headquarters House grounds in 1992, and restored with the support of the Washington County Bar Association. Yell was a Territorial Superior Court Judge, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Arkansas, and a soldier in the wars to snatch real estate from the Creek Indians and the Mexicans. You also could have seen Judge Yell’s beautiful home, Waxhaws, on South College Avenue, but it was torn down in the 1960s by Bryan Walker to make way for his very unimpressive brick ranch-style house.