The Alto windmill prior to the turn of the century. It served as Zoellner's grist mill. Photo courtesy Twilah DeBoer, Brandon Historical Society. Fairwater newspaper clippings and photographs combined in a single, indexed Collections .
Work is ongoing to add documents, plat, census, and other records to the indexes.
Revisions to the Fairwater Local History Web begun to incorporate extensive donations of materials and information. Added George C. Alborn's 1941 Rhythms of Life , a book of Alborn's poems, to the Collections. Rev. Alborn was pastor of the Fairwater Free Baptist church from 1901 to 1904. Eight photographs recently donated to the Fairwater Historical Society by Marie Hardesty, the Gordon Berg estate, Barbara Berndt, and Iva Kono have been added to the Fairwater images page. Subjects include a 1900 picture of Charles and Dora Daehn in front of their home, a 1910 picture of the Free Baptist Sunday School, a 1946 portrait of Rev. and Mrs. Bliese, and a 1953 photo of Rev. Arlin Adams in the pulpit of the Zion Lutheran Church.