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First fire in New Fairfield

 Dated July 31, 1969, this piece in the Palladium-Item, Richmond: FAIRFIELD -- A house, recently moved to Fairfield from a location two miles north of Brookville, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. It had belonged to the Elby Davidson family, who had not yet taken occupancy.  The house had been moved from Indiana 101 near old Fairfield to New Fairfield. Old Fairfield and the former site of the house are in the path of the Brookville Reservoir, under construction. A fireman said Davidson had been working on an addition to the house and left about 5 p.m. A neighbor noticed smoke and called the fire department about 8 p.m.  Firemen had almost extinguished the fire when they ran out of water. By the time another truck arrived, the home was destroyed. No damage estimate was given. * No damage estimate = the place was destroyed.  It was the guy's home. That's what damage was estimated. There was a cruel reality to how the process unfolded. Fairfield was not given any soul. It was
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This is Fairfield, Indiana

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  ENTER FAIRFIELD HERE This is the official location for the history of Fairfield, Indiana. Well, actually it's just the front door. What: Fairfield existed between the years 1815 and 1975, give or take a calendar month on either end of that. The blog that attaches to this page has attempted to capture the history of the town, its environment, its world and the people and events that mattered. Some of that is up to you, the user. The rest of it is memories, contributions, established history or gleaned information. It's accurate enough. Why: The town was inundated in the early 1970s by a federal reservoir, sending its 100 or so families scurrying for safety as the floodwaters slowly backed up for about 7 years. We almost didn't have time to move our belongings, trees, cemeteries ... whatnot. So don't go scuba-diving for gold lockets. You won't find any. Where: Franklin County, Indiana, is a mostly rural, mostly conservative area that was one of the original settl
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