History · Fairfield

Fairfield’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Fairfield. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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Logan Cabin, State Route 101 · Library of Congress

The story

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The Maria and Franklin Wiltrout Polygonal Barn was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairfield’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewLogan Cabin, State Route 101: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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Fairfield, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Fairfield

1 place in Fairfield is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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In Indianaby listings · most towns there have none
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
1993first listedWiltrout, Maria and Franklin, Polygonal Barn

Where they are

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Buildings

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Logan Cabin, State Route 101 and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

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