[1] During the Xia, Shang and early Zhou dynasties, the Dongyi peoples inhabited this area and were collectively known as the Huaiyi after the Huai River.

Once entrenched as the Hongwu Emperor in the nearby Nanjing, he honored the memory of his father, Zhu Wusi (d. 1344), and his mother, Lady Chen, by posthumously raising them to imperial dignity, and building for them an imperial-style mausoleum, known as Ming Huangling (明皇陵, literally, "Ming Imperial Mausoleum").

[4] The stone figures of the Huangling Mausoleum have survived, and have been re-erected at the original location, some 7 km (4.3 mi)south of the county seat ((32°48′50″N 117°31′10″E / 32.81389°N 117.51944°E / 32.81389; 117.51944)).

[6] The Hongwu Emperor resettled people from Shandong, Guangdong, Hebei, Shanxi and Lake Taihu into Fengyang.

[9] In 1974, future Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was sent to Damiao, Fengyang County as part of Mao Zedong's Down to the Countryside Program.

[12] Fengyang County's natural resources include limestone, quartz, marble, vermiculite, and asbestos.