Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Fairfield, PA

Fairfield is a borough in Adams County founded by John Miller, who in 1755 bought 247 acres of the Carroll's Delight tract from Charles Carroll of Annapolis.

Miller named the town for a hamlet in England and was selling building lots by 1784.

A post office opened in Fairfield in 1798 under the name Millerstown, but it was quickly renamed Fairfield because another Millerstown already existed.

Fairfield was incorporated as a borough on August 26, 1896, covering 448 acres — about 0.7 square miles.

At incorporation, Fairfield's industries included a knife factory and two shoe factories, and the small borough already had five churches.

Confederate cavalry under J. E. B. Stuart raided Fairfield on October 11, 1862, looting its stores and post office.

On July 3, 1863, the Battle of Fairfield pitted Major Samuel Starr's 6th U.S. Cavalry against General W. E. Jones's Confederate brigade, costing 242 Union and 34 Confederate casualties.

The battle secured the Fairfield pass through the mountains, protecting the route Robert E. Lee's army used for its retreat from Gettysburg.

Fairfield sits on Pennsylvania Route 116, the old Gettysburg-to-Hagerstown road, at the base of Jacks Mountain.

Railroad promoter and congressman Thaddeus Stevens routed his unfinished 'Tapeworm Railroad' through Fairfield.