Fairview, Christian County, Kentucky

Fairview is a small village on the border between the Christian County and Todd County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The settlement is located about halfway between the towns of Hopkinsville and Elkton. The establishment of the center will be completed in 1793 by a Mr. Samuel Davis. The same opened later ( 1802) a post office nearby. His son, the future president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, came to this place in 1808 to the world.

Today, therefore, exists in the place the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site. Worth seeing is the powerful, over 100 meters high, cast in concrete obelisk of the monument to Davis, the Jefferson Davis Monument.

In 2000 Fairview numbered all of 72 residents who lived in the 32 houses of the village.

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