CHECK OUT SOME GREAT OLD FAIRFAX PHOTOS

You may click on the links below to see some great photos from the Landscape Change Program at UVM.
It takes historic pictures from towns and update how the scene looks today.

Go to : http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape for the site where these links are or you can click on the following links to view.

Remember, you need permission to use these actual photos which you will find instructions on the site:

Fairfax Resevoir Property Prior to Development ( 1870 about )
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Farmers Transporting Stones to Help Build Resevoir ( 1874 about )
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Building of Lower Resevoir ( 1874 about )
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North Fairfax Methodist Church

It is believed that this church was organized as early as 1800, though none of the original records now exist. The first pastor was probably a man named Crane. The Church building was brick and built in 1852 at a cost of $4,000. It was repaired and rededicated in 1872.

There is an interesting facet to the church's construction that should be mentioned. Church pews in those days were generally built in a box-like form, with straight backs and a door at each end. But the pews in this church had the luxury of "heating slots" set in the floor before them which could be opened or closed by those seated there. Heat would come up through the slots when open from a furnace or stove located under the sanctuary floor. The North Fairfax Methodist Church had been unused for about ten years when it was sold to George Hersey a plumber and contractor in St. Albans. It was completely torn down during 1921-22 and the bricks and lumber were used in building camps on the lake and homes in St. Albans. His son Richard who now lives in St. Albans helped his father demolish the church.

From the old Beers 1870 Map it appears to have been located across the road from somewhere in the vicinity of where Darrell Ovitt's House or the next house down the road is.

Methodist Church and House of H.T. Johnson ( 1880 ±10 yrs )
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Building Pumping Station. , 1892 exactly – And How It Looks Today
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Building Pumping Station. ( 1892 exactly ) – Fairfax Resevoir
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Historic View In 1892 Of Fairfax Resevoir And How It Looks Today
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Resevoir partly filled ( 1892 about )
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Lower Resevoir After Filling, Looking South ( 1892 about )
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South Street In 1915 – And How It Looks Today
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Gravel Road Bordered By Wire Fence and Electrical Wires ( 1918 exactly )
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Flood Of 1927 View At St. Luke’s Church – And How It Looks Today
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St. Luke’s Church 1927 Flood View
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Aerial View Of Fairfax Village November 12, 1927 – And How It Looks Today
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Aerial photograph of the Lamoille River -- Fairfax Village ( 1927-11-12 )
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Missing bridge and abutments Fairfax Falls( 1927 exactly )
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Road damaged by flood At Fairfax Falls ( 1927 exactly )
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Road damaged in flood ( 1927-11-16 exactly )
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A Country Road ( 1932-10 exactly )
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Paved Country Road ( 1934-09 exactly )
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Fairfax Falls ( 1952 before )
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Main Street – Early Photo And Today
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Main Street with elm trees ( No Date )
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Highway Route 104 between Fairfax and St. Albans ( No Date )
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Pasture on Buck Hollow Road ( No Date )
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Laying Tile in a Brook ( No Date )
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Fairfax Falls ( No Date )
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Fairfax falls from the west side Lamoille River in the foreground ( No Date )
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The Fairfax Falls ( No Date )
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Lake and Mountains from the Road ( No Date )
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