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Fairview Methodist Episcopal Church
South of Polen, Ringgold County, Iowa

Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
December 25, 1890

The new Fairview Church in the Davenport and Bliss area is being built as fast as possible and will be finished before winter. But of all things that the people rejoice over is the erection and completion of the M.E. Church at this place.

Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
March 26, 1925
The Fairview Church was sold at auction three miles west and four miles north of Diagonal on April 3. Anna BOYCE, Joseph Elliot, L. C. MADDEN, trustees.

Fairview Methodist Episcopal Church was located in the west-central portion of section 11, Lincoln Township, one mile south of the Polen post office. Polen, now a ghost town, was located near the Ringgold County/Union County border.

Reverend L. B. CAMPBELL was the minister in 1894.

The Polen post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1901.

SOURCES:
Mount Ayr Record-News, Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa. December 1, 2005.
Diagonal Iowa: Centennial History p. 168. 1998
JOHNSTON, Mrs. Esther. "Bethel Church"

Compilation by Sharon R. Becker, updated May of 2010

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