[7] The Old Franklin United Brethren Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Notable natives included author James Maurice Thompson, who wrote "Alice of Old Vincennes."

Women's suffrage pioneer Ida Husted Harper was born in Fairfield.

New Fairfield was founded in the early 1970s after construction began on a federal reservoir project in the valley of the East Fork of the Whitewater River.

The town exists on land once owned by Carl Huber and Herschel Klein.