Fairhope is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Somerset County,

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History

Fairhope is a small railroad community located along the historic

B&O Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier. Construction of the line began in 1828, and it operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie ...

. It was

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ted in 1891.Jaclyn LaPlaca, "Somerset County: Pride Beyond the Mountains, PA", Arcadia Publishing, 2003, In 1881, Pittsburgh entrepreneurs established the North Savage Firebrick Works of Welsh, Palmer & Maxwell just outside Fairhope. The company specializes in the manufacture of superior quality of red brick. The B&O railroad line through Fairhope continues to operate; however, it has been absorbed in the

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the lead ...

Filmography

Fairhope was used as the village on the TV series ''The X-Files''. The episode is called "Scary Monsters" and is the 14th episode of the ninth season. The program was not actually filmed on location.

Geography

Fairhope is located at (39.8399, -78.7915)

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Somerset County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania