Where is Fairmont, West Virginia?
Fairmont – A Fair Mountain South of Morgantown, the town of Fairmont is Marion County’s seat. Originally called Middletown because of its location between Morgantown and Clarksburg, it was renamed in 1843 for the “fair mountain” where the settlement was established. The coming of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1850s made it a center of commerce, and coal clinched its boomtown character. In 1865, one of West Virginia’s first teacher training schools was established here; it grew into Fairmont State College, which maintains a red-roofed one-room school museum to mark its heritage.
