Lenawee County, Michigan
Fairfield Township Real Estate and Local Guide
Rural farming township on the southern border of Lenawee County near the Ohio state line, containing the community of Jasper and known for its 19th-century dairy and cheese industry, recording 1,661 residents across 42.0 square miles of land in the 2020 census
Living in Fairfield Township
Site of the Fairfield Cheese Factory, which opened in 1866 as the first cheese factory in Michigan. Source: fairfieldtwplenaweemi.gov
Homes in Fairfield Township
What makes Fairfield Township home
George B. and Amanda Bradish Horton Farmstead
National Register of Historic Places farmstead at 4650 West Horton Road, built in 1888 in the Queen Anne style on 40 acres and added to the register on February 1, 2007
Jasper General Store
Historic 19th-century general store building still standing in the unincorporated community of Jasper along M-52 in the township
Fairfield Township Hall
Township offices at 1023 Pine Street in Jasper, with the township board meeting at the Fire Hall at 9965 Brown Street in Weston
Fairfield Township areas to know
Jasper
Census-designated place and unincorporated community along M-52 that recorded 371 residents in the 2020 census, first settled by Andrew Millet in 1824
Fairfield
Unincorporated community originally called Baker's Corners after settlers Moses, Orin, and Joseph Baker, renamed Fairfield in 1842
Weston
Unincorporated community first settled by Ezra Cole in 1835, originally called Oakford and renamed in 1869 after professional pedestrian Edward Payson Weston
Ridgeville
Former locale in the township with a post office that operated from 1898 to 1902