Author: Fairview Area Historical Society
Fairview in 1940
The summer of 1940 in Fairview was almost dream-like. A sense prevailed that the economy was getting better following a decade of Depression, but abroad, news was ominous of a country that was r... Read More
No Ordinary Year
“No Ordinary Year” is the title of the Memorial Weekend Exhibit at the Sturgeon House. It will be in place all summer for anyone wishing to view it. Memorial Weekend activities have be... Read More
FAIRVIEW’S SOUTH HIGH
As the school year comes to an end we are reminded of all the activities that should be happening in this season. We commiserate with those graduating seniors who will not experience the excitem... Read More
Another Historic Date!
Today is May 1, 2020. It is another historic day… One-hundred and five years ago, a Saturday, three ocean liners were moored along the New York Piers, waiting to depart for various countr... Read More
It’s April Again!
The month of April is fraught, yes, fraught with dates that are important to the U.S. ‘Way back in 1861 the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and the most divisive event i... Read More
Elizabeth Canon Eaton
Surely every woman in Fairview Township is extraordinary in some way. But, on this, the last day of Women in History Month, it is important to acknowledge one of the early women to settle in the towns... Read More
Another Woman to Celebrate This Month…
It is obvious to the members of the Fairview Area Historical Society that every woman who grew up in Fairview (Township or former Borough) was special and worthy of mention during this Women’s Histo... Read More
International Women’s Day
Surely everyone is aware by now that 100 years ago on August 26 the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified. The U.S. has celebrated International Women’s Day even lon... Read More
Fairview’s First Music Teacher, Earl E. Lawrence
February is Black History Month and Fairview has a very proud claim to one of the outstanding members of Erie’s Black Community. Earl Emerson Lawrence was one of four children to an amaz... Read More