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Category: Fairview Airport

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 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
A Female Pilot?  Come on!

A Female Pilot? Come on!

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Fairview Area Historical Society
If ever a woman might be described as a “flapper,” it would be Elizabeth Ann Eberhart.  She was from Kansas, graduated from Kansas State University in journalism and had come...... Read More
A Tribute

A Tribute

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Yesterday there was a military burial in the Fairview Cemetery.  An honor guard, taps, a 21-gun salute, all to pay tribute to a man who had devoted his life to...... Read More
Amelia Earhart Day

Amelia Earhart Day

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Fairview Area Historical Society
Today, July 23, has been designated as Amelia Earhart Day.  One of the great aviatrixes, partly for her “firsts,” and partly because her disappearance over the Pacific Ocean remains a... Read More

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