Earn a History Explorer badge
Take a Fayetteville history tour, answer a few questions along the way, and earn a badge and a printable certificate. It’s free.
How to earn a badge
- Get the Explorer card. Print the Walking Tour card or the Field Trip card (one page, plus a certificate). No printer? Do it on a phone: the questions are below; jot the answers in your notes app.
- Take the tour. Follow the walking tour or the field-trip route with a grown-up. Check off each stop.
- A grown-up sends the answers. A parent, guardian or teacher uses the form below or emails hello@ourtownalmanac.com. Get at least 4 of the 6 right and the badge is yours.
- Get your certificate. We email back a printable certificate with the badge on it. You can also save the badge image from this page. Stickers coming soon.
The badges
Tour badges
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Stickers coming soonOther towns: the Pulaski, Lynchburg and Shelbyville badges are coming when that town’s tour opens. They can’t be earned yet because those towns don’t have walking tours yet. The Road Trip Explorer badge is coming soon too. In Fayetteville, finishing either tour also earns the Fayetteville town badge.
Stickers coming soon. Right now every badge you earn comes as a printable certificate and a badge image you can save or print. Real stickers, and a collector card to keep them on, are coming soon. We’ll say so in the newsletter when they’re ready.
The questions (for phones)
Walking Tour Explorer: 6 questions
- Find the stone obelisk on the west side of the courthouse. Lincoln County is named for a Revolutionary War general. What was his name? Stop 1: The Courthouse Square
- Find the Horse Mounting Stones on the courthouse lawn. What did people use them for? Stop 2: Courthouse Lawn: Monuments and Markers
- For more than 50 years, a women's club ran something in this building for the whole town, with no public money. What was it? Stop 3: The Pythian Building
- A calaboose is an old word for a jail. In what year was this town jail built? (Hint: it's on the tour page and in the audio.) Stop 4: The Old City Calaboose
- Oral histories say the women of this church carried bricks to the building site. What did they carry the bricks in? Stop 5: St. Paul A.M.E. Church
- Before it was a museum, this building was a milk plant. In what year was it built? Stop 8: Fayetteville-Lincoln County Museum
Field Trip Explorer: 6 questions
- Find the stone obelisk on the west side of the courthouse. Lincoln County is named for a Revolutionary War general. What was his name? Stop 1: The Courthouse Square
- Read the Civil War Trails marker. What did Union soldiers use the walled courthouse for? Stop 2: Courthouse Lawn: Monuments and Markers
- For more than 50 years, a women's club ran something in this building for the whole town, with no public money. What was it? Stop 3: The Pythian Building
- This 1867 building was the town jail (a calaboose). What is it used for today? Stop 4: The Old City Calaboose
- Find the plaque at 310 Elk Ave. S. What year does it give for the house? Stop 10: South Elk Street Historic District
- Find the Tennessee Music Pathways marker in front of the museum. In what year was songwriter Ed Townsend born in Fayetteville? Stop 8: Fayetteville-Lincoln County Museum
Every answer can be found at the stop or on the tour page. Get at least 4 of the 6 right to earn the badge.
Send the answers (grown-ups only)
Kids’ privacy
- We don’t collect information from children. The form is for parents, guardians and teachers.
- We ask only for the adult’s email and, if you like, a first name to print on the certificate. We don’t publish it or add it to any mailing list, and we delete the message after the certificate is sent.
- We never publish a child’s name or photo without a parent’s written OK.
- Teachers: you don’t need to send students’ names. Ask for a class set of certificates with blank name lines and write the names in by hand.