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Sturgeon House Open Hours

Sturgeon House Open Hours

Posted on December 18, 2017March 4, 2025 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Each Tuesday, beginning in mid-May through mid-November the Sturgeon House will be open from 1 to 3 pm, with rare exceptions.  If you would like a tour or would like...... Read More
A Remarkable Fairview Mother...

A Remarkable Fairview Mother…

Posted on May 10, 2025May 12, 2025 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Tomorrow, May 11, 2025, is Mother’s Day.  Surly mothers should be remembered and honored more days than one each year! And so, here is the story of a remarkable woman,...... Read More
The Wandering Wench

The Wandering Wench

Posted on March 22, 2025March 23, 2025 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Here’s a tale not heard lately… and includes one of our favorite topics, Neil McCray’s Erie County Airport.   Neil sold it to the Kudlak brothers after World War II and...... Read More
A. F. Dobler and the Dobler Mansion, Part 2

A. F. Dobler and the Dobler Mansion, Part 2

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Fairview Area Historical Society
     During the last two years of his life there was considerable strife in Albert’s family.  After his wife died in 1903, he sometimes expressed an interest in remarrying.&n... Read More
A. F. DOBLER AND THE DOBLER MANSION

A. F. DOBLER AND THE DOBLER MANSION

Posted on March 4, 2025March 4, 2025 by Fairview Area Historical Society
The following post was published in the Cosmopolite Herald on July 18, 1984, in a twice-monthly column called “Twice Around the Township.”               ... Read More

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Fairview Area Historical Society
This week, May 5 – 11, 2024, is National Nurses’ Week.  Nurses are regarded as Angels in our society and deserve more than a week of recognition.  This month our...... Read More
A Woman in Fairview's History

A Woman in Fairview’s History

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Fairview Area Historical Society
For Women’s History Month we are remembering a woman who only lived in Fairview briefly, in a cottage by the lake off Melhorn Rd.  She moved there to be close...... Read More
EARLY MUSIC AT FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

EARLY MUSIC AT FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Here it is, the last day of Black History Month and we have not contributed our story to it.  You remember… Earl Lawrence, a black musician from Erie, was an...... Read More
THE DEER HUNT

THE DEER HUNT

Posted on November 26, 2023 by Fairview Area Historical Society
     Tomorrow is the first day of deer hunting season for regular firearms.  Bow and arrow season began on September 17 and continues to January 17.  Specialty firearms and...... Read More
SCHOOL DAYS OF 1968

SCHOOL DAYS OF 1968

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Fairview Area Historical Society
With school ready to open on Wednesday, August 30, little flashes of memory come back about another fall opening.  It was 55 years ago (1968) and the future for Fairview...... Read More
THE NETHERLAND CLUB

THE NETHERLAND CLUB

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Summers spent in Fairview Township were popular in the early part of the last century. Camps formed, families built cabins and others came for a week or two to rent...... Read More
SOMETHING NEW!!

SOMETHING NEW!!

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Fairview Area Historical Society
We have been looking for something new… a new way to showcase some of our old buildings.  Old but gone, so how can we remember them? How about a puzzle? ...... Read More
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