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The Fairfield Area Historical Society  was created to help preserve and protect Fairfield's historical heritage. The Historical Society intends to identify and acquire artifacts and information of historical significance to the Fairfield area.
Pippinfest 
The Pippinfest is an annual street festival held the last full weekend in September. 
  • Saturday - over 30 yard sales throughout Fairfield as well as craft vendors on Main Street. 
  • Sunday - live music entertainment as well as approximately 100 craft and retail vendors.
Both days feature lots of food vendors and the Kids’ corner for children of all ages with petting zoo, games, and rides. Come hungry and eat your way from one end of town to the other. ​
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​Upcoming Events

Ross Hetrick Portrays Thaddeus Stevens

at the Village Hall
April 18, 2019
7:00 p.m
Ross Hetrick is the president of the Thaddeus Stevens Society, a non-profit organization he founded in 1999 to promote the legacy of Thaddeus Stevens, one of the most important political figures of the American Civil War era. Hetrick has played Stevens for twenty years and at the April 18, 2019 meeting of the Fairfield Area Historical Society, 7:00 p.m. in the Village Hall, he will portray Stevens talking about the Maria Furnace in Fairfield and the effort to build the "Tapeworm" railroad in the 1830s.
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Blacksmith shop and stable in Fairfield
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The Paxton & McCreary store at approximately 20 East Main Street
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Post civil war picture of H.J. Waddle house, shop and wagon