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Fairbury, NE - History
We would like to provide the residents of Fairbury a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Fairbury Home page. The Fairbury Home page provides as much information as possible on Fairbury. Knowing Fairbury’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fairbury’s Home page, you will also find Fairbury’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Fairbury has a population of 3657. 43.8% of Fairbury’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.2 are female. 48.2% of Fairbury is married and 60.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $83,906, and the average rent is $739. Household median income in Fairbury is $42,134, and the individual median income is $25,806. Fairbury’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.8%), Hispanic(6.8%), Black(1.4%), Other(1.3%), Multiple(1%), Native(0.8%), Asian(0.7%).
The decade from 1900 to 1910 saw the largest growth in Fairbury's history; the census of 1910 reported a population of 5,294, representing a sixty percent increase over the ten years.A major fire in 1903 swept the commercial district, destroying almost the entire block south of the courthouse square; the only building to survive was the original brick courthouse.
Within a year, however, the entire block had been rebuilt.In 1909, E. J. Hested opened his dime store, The Fair Store, in one of the new buildings. Two years later, the name of the store was changed to Hested's. In 1925, the store moved into a new and larger building; the business expanded to over 150 stores in the Midwest and Mountain States before its acquisition by the J.J.
Newberry chain in 1969.The 1910s and 1920s were the peak years for the Rock Island Railroad, with fourteen passenger trains passing through Fairbury daily, and with hundreds of Fairbury residents on the payroll. To accommodate this traffic, the railroad constructed a new depot, at a cost of $40,000.
The city's commercial district underwent a considerable expansion, including two movie theaters and several large retail stores. In 1915, civic leaders began promoting the brick paving of Fairbury's downtown streets; by 1930, there were 10 miles (16 km) of paved road. The 1920s and 1930s saw a proliferation of automobile-related businesses, such as garages, gas stations, and repair shops.Fairbury was better situated than many communities to weather the Great Depression.
Beside the railroad, it had a variety of industries, including the Fairbury Windmill Company, with a payroll of 50 people in 1930. The city continued to grow through the Depression, despite the difficulties of the Rock Island, which went into receivership in 1933 and did not emerge until 1948. The population of Fairbury peaked in 1950, at 6,395 residents. The conversion of the Rock Island to diesel locomotives, completed by 1952, rendered portions of the Fairbury yards obsolete.
The decrease in passenger railway traffic after World War II led to the reduction of service, the closing of stations, and the abandonment of track. In 1965, the Rock Island's Chicago-to-Denver Rocky Mountain Rocket train ceased to run through Fairbury; in that same year, the railway relocated its Western Division headquarters from Fairbury to Des Moines, Iowa.
1965 was also the last year in which the Rock Island reported a profit. In 1975, it again entered receivership. A 1979 strike, unsuccessfully mediated by President Jimmy Carter, was the final nail in the railroad's coffin. The railroad's routes were operated for 60 days by the Kansas City Terminal Railway, to allow shipping of the 1979 Midwestern harvest; but in 1980, service to Fairbury ceased, and the depot was abandoned.
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