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According to state records, the entire area originally was the Fairfield Plantation. Settlement in the plantation may be said to date back to 1771 when Jonathan Emery built a house on Emery Hill near the banks of the Kennebec River. Other settlers established themselves nearby and a small community began to develop. In 1780, William Kendall purchased the mill of an earlier settler (Jonas Dutton) as well as much of the land in the area. The entire village area came to be known as Kendall's Mills?.
While the Kendall's Mills settlement was developing, a second population center was established. On October 11, 1781, Joseph Dimmock and Joseph Nye (both of Cape Cod in Massachusetts) purchased an 18-square mile tract of land in the Fairfield Plantation. Within a five year period, sixty lots were surveyed and settled. Nearby, a group of Quakers under the Bowerman brothers established a third settlement in North Fairfield in 1782.
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- 1854 - Fairfield
Fairfield, a post-township of Somerset Co., Maine, on the W. side of the Kennebec, 25 miles N. by E. from Augusta. Pop., 2452.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854. - 1859
FAIRFIELD, a township of Somerset co., in the state of Maine, 22 m. N of Augusta, bordered on the N and E by Kennebec river. Pop. 2,198.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859 - 1886 - Fairfield
Fairfield lies on the west bank of the Kennebec River, 26 miles north of Augusta, and is the most southerly town of Somerset County. It is bounded on ...Read MORE... - 1889 - Fairfield
Among the most delightful features of a journey through the State of Maine, the observing tourist must estimate highly the pleasure which is not...Read MORE... 
Fairfield, Maine. Main Street showing Hotel Gerald
Postcard- 1895 - Fairfield
Fairfield, a post-village of Somerset co., Me., in Fairfield township, on the W. bank of the Kennebec River, and on the Maine Central Railroad, 21...Read MORE... 
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Main Street, looking North, Fairfield, Me.
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Fairfield, a banking post-village of Somerset co., Me., in Fairfield township (town), on the W. bank of the Kennebec River and on the Maine Central...Read MORE...
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Fairfield, Maine. Main Street showing Hotel Gerald
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Main Street, looking North, Fairfield, Me.
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1854 - Fairfield
Fairfield, a post-township of Somerset Co., Maine, on the W. side of the Kennebec, 25 miles N. by E. from Augusta. Pop., 2452.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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1859
FAIRFIELD, a township of Somerset co., in the state of Maine, 22 m. N of Augusta, bordered on the N and E by Kennebec river. Pop. 2,198.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
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1886 - Fairfield
Fairfield lies on the west bank of the Kennebec River, 26 miles north of Augusta, and is the most southerly town of Somerset County. It is bounded on ... Read MORE...
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1889 - Fairfield
Among the most delightful features of a journey through the State of Maine, the observing tourist must estimate highly the pleasure which is not... Read MORE...
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1895 - Fairfield
Fairfield, a post-village of Somerset co., Me., in Fairfield township, on the W. bank of the Kennebec River, and on the Maine Central Railroad, 21... Read MORE...
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1916
Fairfield, a banking post-village of Somerset co., Me., in Fairfield township (town), on the W. bank of the Kennebec River and on the Maine Central... Read MORE...
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