Fort Fairfield is a town in Aroostook County, eastern Maine, United States, located along the Canada–US border.
Agricultural produce, particularly potato and broccoli farming, is important to the local economy.
[10] The town contains the Blockhouse Museum, displaying artifacts from the Aroostook War.
Just south of Fort Fairfield at Maple Grove is the restored Maple Grove Friends Church, a historic Quaker meeting house built and national historic building built, believed to be the oldest ecclesiastical building in the Fort Fairfield area as well as the northernmost station on the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery.
[11] The annual State of Maine Potato Blossom Festival is held in the third week of July.
A large levee holds back the spring surge of waters from the Aroostook River.
The nearest significant shopping center is in Presque Isle, about 11 miles away.
[citation needed] The nearby Aroostook Valley Country Club at 234 Russell Road straddles the Maine-New Brunswick border.
Until the Covid-19 pandemic, members and their guests, as long as they remain on the club's property, were not required to clear Canadian customs; however, post pandemic, all visitors from the USA must now enter Canada at a formal entry point.