PLAT OF THE NORTH PART OF FAIRWATER
Fairwater Register, November 6, 1903

  The accompanying plat is one-half size engraving of the original plat as made by the surveyor of Fond du Lac county, Russell Stewart, in March, 1903. This plat was made after making the survey of all that part of the village, and shows in a measure the growth of the town in the past five years and its possibility for future growth. The land on the north side, east of the highway, is owned by Josiah Batson with the exception of lot 3, block 8, owned by C. P. Tinkham and lot 6, block 1, recently purchased by the Free Baptist church and now occupied by their new building. J. Batson also has a residence on lot 2, block 8. On the west side of the highway the land is owned by Mrs. E. Newland with the exception of the following lots, which have been sold by her to parties who have dwellings on the same. Following is a list of lots which have been sold: Block 7, lot 1, Mrs. C. J. Fry; lot 12, Mrs. M. A. Tinkham; lot 11, Mr. C. O. Tinkham, lot 10, H. H. Born; lot 9, E. C. True. lot 8, J. W. Lyons; lot 7, C. C. Cease; lot 6, Mrs. C. J. Fry Also in block 6, lot 5, Parker Cease; lot 6, Orville Vaughan. This leaves on the east side of the highway eleven lots and on the west side twenty lots.
   These lots are offered for sale by the owners and the prices at which they are held are low in comparison with prices asked and being paid for lots in other adjoining towns, which have very little if any better advantages to offer than Fairwater has now. Nearly all lines of trade are represented in our little village and keen competition in most lines of business and the apparent desire of the merchants to please their customers has caused the village to prosper and make a rapid growth in the last six years. All the buildings on the lots in the above plat have been built in the seven years with the exception of the house near the new bank building now occupied by J. W. Lyon, and the grain elevator used by Tinkham Bros. This includes seven store buildings, Cease's hotel, new bank building, and eleven houses. Also during this time Tinkham Bros. have put in their lumber yard, and other side lines which were not handled in the village prior to this time.
   In the same time there has been additional store buildings and dwellings built in  the other end of the town and a number of dwellings built so that the appearance is entirely different from what it was a few years ago.
   With practically the same train service with the main line, with Wisconsin telephone exchange, rural lines, and the promise of a rural route in the near future and a local paper, and last but not least, a good farming country as can be found anywhere in the state, we see no reason why our village should not continue to grow and prosper.