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5 unusual facts about Fairmount


Fairmount, Delaware

It is one of the Three Sisters communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and Hollymount.

Hollymount, Delaware

It is one of the Three Sisters communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and Hollymount.

Hollyville, Delaware

It is one of the Three Sisters communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and Hollymount.

Suedehead

The video clip for this Morrissey single features the singer walking in the streets of Fairmount, Indiana, the boyhood city of James Dean.

Triumph TR5 Trophy

It was sold after the actor's death, and then was retrieved, restored and displayed at the James Dean Museum in Fairmount, Indiana.


David Cooperrider

David Cooperrider is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, and Faculty Director at the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case.

Fairmount and Veblen Railway

The railroad was established in 1913 with the help and financial backing of Julius Rosholt, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and that year constructed trackage from Fairmount, North Dakota southward into South Dakota to Rosholt, then westward to Claire City and Veblen.

Fairmount Park, Seattle

The Fairmount Park neighborhood of West Seattle in Seattle, Washington, runs along both sides of Fauntleroy Way SW from SW Graham Street in the south to SW Edmunds Street in the north.

Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club

The Fletcher Street club stables are located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of north Philadelphia, on the edge of Fairmount Park.

Huntington Medical Research Institutes

The Neural Engineering program is conducted at the 734 Fairmount Avenue building directly adjacent to Huntington Hospital.

R. H. King Academy

Feeder schools for R. H. King Academy are John A. Leslie Public School, Bliss Carman Senior Public School, Robert Service Public School, Fairmount Public School and Anson Park Public School.

Sedgeley

It was rescued from demolition and converted to office space in the 1990s by the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust and is currently occupied by Outward Bound.


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