Fairview is a town which is located in northeast central Oscoda County. It was settled about 1883. [MPN] The AuSable & North Western railroad came through here on a forest branch line from Twin Lake Junction northwest to Lewiston in Montmorency County.
Fairview is also the location of several tourist and personally owned 1/4 gauge railroads in the vicinity, including the AuSable Valley Railroad on Abbe Road south of Fairview.
Some old maps show that during the early logging era, Fairview was north of its current location. A sign on an old building on M-33 2½ miles north of Fairview suggests that this was the original Fairview post office, established in 1883. It was apparently moved to the current location in later years.
1893. May. The AS&NW railroad notes in a report to the Michigan Commissioner of Railroads that they replaced a 1,400 foot long bridge near Fairview, because it had been destroyed by fire. [MCR-1894]
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