Fairmount’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Fairmount. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Fairmount area was settled in the 1830s mostly by Quakers from North Carolina. The town was laid out in 1850 and named for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia; it was formally incorporated in 1870.
After a large deposit of natural gas was found in 1887, Fairmount became part of the Indiana Gas Boom and a center of the glass industry for the rest of the 19th century. Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom community, restoring some of its lost prosperity.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairmount’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewFairmount-indiana-from-above: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Fairmount
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Fairmount, decade by decade
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Nothing in Fairmount is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Fairmount has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is J.W. Patterson House in Fairmount, 1.9 miles away.
Fairmount and the nearest listed places
Closest to Fairmount
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Fairmount-indiana-from-above and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (9). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.