The frame Victorian commercial blocks lining Fairfield’s Main Street in the 1920s gave the downtown the look of a western movie set.
Appropriately, at the left the white marquis marks the entrance to the Star Theater, an early moving picture theater. Other businesses include a bakery, a pool hall, a pharmacy, and an electrical appliance store.
Fairfield’s location on the Kennebec River supplied waterpower for such industries as textiles, furniture, lumber, and paper.
