A picture of the Fairview Hotel from about 1918. Note the rates. The hotel was removed about 1925. The hotel faced the railroad and stood south of Sherman Ave. between Randall and Youngs Aves.
Note: In the town of Fairview, now Woodlyn several local businessmen built and sold stock in the Fairview Hotel. The town of Fairview was named for the "Fairview" farm which was sold in the early 1870's as a real estate development. Roughly the town of Fairview was between Fairview Rd. the Blue Route, and Jefferson Ave. and the Chessie Railroad of today. The Fairview Hotel was a big hit for the Nation's Centennial and was torn down in the 1920's.
CHESTER
TIMES – February 18, 1876
FAIRVIEW HOTEL CO.
Situated In the New Suburban
Village of Fairview
Village of Fairview, near Crum Lynne
station, P. W. & B. Railroad, ten miles from Philadelphia. Railroad trains will run directly from Crum
Lynn to the Centennial Exposition, quarter and a half hourly. The Hotel Omnibus will meet every train.
The fifteen thousand dollars
($115,000) capital will buy and improve the property, and completely furnish
the house.
Subscriptions to the Stock of the
above Company, Fifteen Hundred (1,500) shares at Ten Dollars per share, payable
in four (4) monthly installments of Two
Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50) each.
Everything will be ready by the first
day of May, 1876 and will be in charge of a competent person.
`Twenty-five thousand Knights Templar
will have an encampment at Crum Lynn during the Continental Imposition, a
distance of eight minutes’ walk in Fairview House.
Special Dispatch to the Philadelphia
Daily Press
“WASHINGTON, Feb. 10th –
The Knights Templar of Maryland, the
District of Columbia, and the South
and West have perfected arrangements
to encamp in force at Ridley Park,
about ten miles from Philadelphia. The
season of encampment will begin in May
and continue until September. It is
proposed by many of the Knights to take their
families with them. They
will carry their own camp equipment with
them. The communications
received from every part of the country
named, indicate that not less than
twenty-five thousand Knights will be
present. The reunion will be one of
the greatest the Order has ever seen, even
exceeding the numbers engaged
on many a bloody field during the serious
conflicts of a few centuries ago.”
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Historic Preservation Advocacy Week Mar 07, 12:00 PM – Mar 10, 1:00 PM
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*Public Archaeology Day Mar 12, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Newlin Grist Mill, 219 Cheyney Rd, Glen Mills, PA 19342
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Deep Rivers- How African Americans Waded through the Waters of Oppression to Achieve Greatness Mar 13, 1:00 PM – Mar 14, 3:00 PM
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