Researcher: Steven Butler

Leon Pioneer newspaper (published in Centerville, Leon County, Texas) - 
late September 1852 edition:

The town of Fairfield is situated on the southern edge of a small prairie. 
The town site is beautiful...and the town presents a thriving and busy aspect...
At present it contains three drygoods stores, one grocery, two hotels, and a 
jail. No permanent courthouse has been erected, and the jail is just completed; 
was informed that it cost $600. A large hotel is in the course of construction...
The erection of a masonic hall will soon be commenced...The town has hotel 
keepers, merchants, brick makers and layers, three resident lawyers and as many 
physicians...A large immigration is expected to the county this fall and winter. 
Crops are good, and provisions of every kind will be plentiful.