City of Fairfield, Fairfield, Jefferson County, AL

Significance: Fairfield represents the ultimate expression of planned worker communities in the iron and steel industry. The design for this model industrial city reflects the influence of the "City Beautiful" movement of the Progressive Era in the history of the United States. Extensive, surviving planning documents detail goals of social engineering in their generous provision for civic and green spaces in the new city. While no expense was spared in the planning and construction of streets, parks, sidewalks, residences and landscaping for this community, Fairfield housed only skilled white labor.
Survey number: HAER AL-110
Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction