In 1905 the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company evicted most of Fairbank's residents, and many townspeople knocked down their own houses with sledgehammers rather than leave them to their evictors. The town's schoolhouse was built around 1920 of gypsum block made in Douglas, Arizona, served children in first through seventh grade until the 1940's, and stood beside the house where the schoolteacher lived, while eighth grade students went on to nearby Tombstone. At the Fairbank Depot, travelers made connections to places such as Bisbee, Nogales, and Mexico. The Fairbank Commercial Building housed the general store, a saloon, and even the town jail, and the Post Office operated from 1883 until the early 1970s. To preserve the Post Office, BLM re-roofed it and replaced entire walls. A neighboring house may have been a miner's cabin moved into Fairbank and probably reused as a store. The Montezuma Hotel and saloon were built in 1889 and once stood next to the Fairbank Commercial Building.