Fayette's Neighborhoods

By September 28, 1867, Fayette had two streets circling a little bay, with ten or twelve neat frame buildings and twenty-five or thirty occupied log shanties on the opposite slope. A central business district divided the company housing. Tradesmen and supervisors lived with their families in comfortable frame houses across town, while the laboring class lived in simple log homes stretching in rows along the hill, road, and shoreline. One working-class home had been reconstructed on its original site, and shallow depressions in the ground mark other cabin sites.

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