Fairville, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated area in southern

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which developed in the early nineteenth century about a mile north of the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. It is a

linear village Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship (''function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' proportionality''. Examples in physics include rectilinear motion, the linear r ...

along the Kennett Pike (

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) that runs between

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and

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. Businesses along the road served both travelers on the road and residents of nearby farms. The village or hamlet extends about 500 yards along both sides of Kennett Pike from Fairville Road to Hickory Hill Road. NRHP Nomination form for Fairville, Pennsylvania
/ref> About 1900 Phillip DuPont built a mansion just south of Fairville Road. It is included in the defined Fairville Historic District, which was listed on the

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in 1996. The Harlan Log House, which was built about 1715, is about a half mile west of the village on Fairville Road.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Populated places in Chester County, Pennsylvania Houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-NRHP-stub

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