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Fairview is a town in northeastern Cullman County in north-central Alabama, lying along State Route 69 between Cullman to the west and Arab to the east.

Settlers arrived in the Fairview area in the 1840s to establish farms, and the community was originally called Lawrence Chapel after the local Methodist Episcopal church.

The name was changed to Fairview, after another Methodist Episcopal church, probably sometime in the late 1890s.

By the turn of the 20th century Fairview had several sawmills and a general store, and its first cotton gin arrived in 1905; the town was also home to a popular resort hotel in the early 1900s.

Fairview's first telephone switchboard was installed in 1919.

In 1921, Fairview established the first vocational agriculture department in Cullman County, and the town's first high school opened in 1923.

A tornado in 1932 destroyed the second story of the school along with the elementary school.

Fairview did not incorporate until 1968, more than a century after it was first settled.

The 2020 census counted 543 people, 213 households, and 168 families in Fairview, up from 446 residents in 2010.

Fairview students attend Fairview Elementary School, Fairview Middle School, and Fairview High School, all members of the Cullman County Board of Education.