The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1867, the Jackson Iron Company had Fayette Brown build a charcoal iron smelter at Fayette, which grew up around the smelter and named after Brown. A Fayette post office opened on September 13, 1870 with Marvin H. Brown as postmaster. In 1891, the smelter was dismantled.
Fairport was founded in 1886 by fishermen who had relocated from St. Martin Island. The community was a commercial fishing port.
Fayette continued on as a small resort community until the mid-1950s, and then became a state park in 1959.
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