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FAIRFIELD Today!
The Fairfield Ledger — Page 1A — Wednesday, July 30, 2014
THE FAIRFIELD LEDGER’S ANNUAL PROGRESS EDITION • SECTION 1 OF 3 • Wednesday, July 30, 2014
PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID SCHAUS
A worker at Schaus-Vorhies Kleaning loads a basket full of tools that will be stripped of their paint once they are submerged in the hot sand bed on the right. SVK is one of several branches of Schaus-Vorhies
Contracting and has offices on West Grimes Avenue and Stone Avenue.
Schaus-Vorhies
Company continues to expand into new frontiers
By ANDY HALLMAN
Ledger news editor
Schaus-Vorhies Contracting in
Fairfield has grown by leaps and
bounds since it began nearly 30
years ago.
The business name reflects the
surnames of its two founding members, David “Gus” Schaus and
Roger Vorhies. Before going into
business together, Schaus and
Vorhies had gotten to know each
other well. They both worked for
local carpenter Bill Kurka in the
early 1980s. After Kurka left town,
both men received help from
Schaus’ brother-in-law, Daren
Mathias.
The two men went their separate
ways and started businesses of their
own. Schaus ran Schaus
Contracting and specialized in
wood, finishing and remodeling.
Vorhies operated Roger Vorhies
Constructing and focused on concrete, pole barns and tiling. In 1986,
they collaborated on covering the
Allis-Chalmers building, now Floor
to Ceiling in Ottumwa. The joint
effort went so well the pair decided
to go into business together.
“We knew we would complement
each other well,” Schaus said.
“There were big general contractors
in Ottumwa and Mt. Pleasant, and
we decided we were going to be the
big general contractor in Fairfield.”
Schaus-Vorhies Contracting was
born in 1987, in Schaus’ garage on
South 17th Street. Within a year, the
firm had three to four employees.
The construction crew worked on
roofs, pole buildings and remodeling in the business’s early years.
The crew had so many jobs to do it
often worked seven days a week in
the summer of 1988.
Several buildings in town owe
their existence in part to SchausVorhies Contracting. Buildings the
company has worked on include
those for Harper Brush Works,
American Chain and Cable
Company, The Dexter Company,
Cambridge Investment Research,
Books Are Fun, Maharishi
University of Management and
SunnyBrook Assisted Living.
The company moved into its current location at 609 W. Grimes Ave.
in 1994, which is also when the
owners started Schaus-Vorhies
Manufacturing. The company got
some of its materials from Ceco
Building System in Mt. Pleasant.
Schaus-Vorhies used Ceco’s “factory seconds,” which refer to products
that are in good condition but the
wrong size. Schaus-Vorhies took
those leftovers and cut them to fit
whatever job it was working on.
In 1996, another branch of the
company was born: Paint-Line.
Paint-Line is an industrial finishing
and porcelain job shop. Frank
Nelson, manager of that division,
said the company does all of the
overruns that Fairfield Castings
cannot do.
The new millennium saw the
business continue to expand just as
it had in the previous 15 years. In
2002, the company started SchausVorhies Kleaning, an industrial
cleaning company primarily serving
John Deere operations. SVK
removes paint using fluidized sand
and by heating the object to 800
degrees.
One thing SVK does is clean the
devices that hold tools in place as
they are painted on an assembly
line. Once they are painted, the
tools are dropped off and new tools
are placed on the holders to be
painted. Eventually, too much paint
builds up on the holders. That is
where SVK comes in with its fluidized sand bed to save the day.
“The sand bed does not damage
the metal, and it keeps it a constant
See SCHAUS-VORHIES, p. 2A
Inside
Section A
175 years young: Fairfield has been city of ‘firsts’ throughout
its history ......... Page 3A
Studio 100: Stacey Martin takes her hairdressing talents next
door ............. Page 6A
Section B
Cutting Edge: Water can slice through anything at
Creative Edge ........... Page 1B
Sweet Tradition: The Dairy Bar is a summer staple in
Fairfield................ Page 4B
Banking on a Winner: Iowa State Bank and Trust Company
turns 80 years old ........... Page 6B
An employee of Paint-Line puts parts onto a conveyor belt to be washed and painted.
Section C
Maharishi University: Celebrating 40 years in Fairfield
........... Page 1C
Duke’s Yamaha Kawasaki: Duke and Cid Schmidt in
business for half a century........... Page 6C
SCHAUS-VORHIES
A worker with Schaus-Vorhies Manufacturing welds a giant tube destined for Peoria, Illinois, where it will
be galvanized and later shipped to Eddyville.
temperature,” said Mark Burnham,
a partner in the company. “This part
of the business has grown immensely in the past three years.”
SVK performs other tasks such as
taking the cores out of castings and
heat-treating aluminum. Heattreating involves taking a soft metal
and quenching it to harden it.
“If you don’t harden aluminum,
it’s too gummy and you can’t
machine it,” Burnham said.
Most of SVK’s customers are in
southeast Iowa and include four
John Deere plants in the state and
Hill Phoenix in Keosauqua.
Although the company’s branches have grown by leaps and bounds
in recent years, the largest branch is
still the original Schaus-Vorhies
Contracting with about 30 employees. Paint-Line is close to catching
general contracting, however, with
between 25-30 employees. SchausVorhies Manufacturing and SchausVorhies Kleaning each have about
10.
The latest expansion from the
company came last December with
t h e b i r t h o f S c h a u s - Vo r h i e s
Rigging. SVR has two employees
but those two move some of the
heaviest machinery on the planet.
Their jobs so far have included
moving printing presses and excavators.
“I never imagined our business
would grow to this size,” Schaus
said. “We were just trying to have a
big construction company.”
The company has had to add
space a time or two to accommodate its growth. By 2004, the office
on West Grimes had gotten pretty
crowded. Burnham and Nelson said
every branch had become very protective of its space since there was
so little of it to go around. That
year, the company moved SVK to
its new office on Stone Avenue. A
year later, SVM moved there, too,
and now SVR and Paint-Line have
offices on Stone Avenue as well.
The most recent project SchausVorhies has taken on is to help the
Farm to School greenhouse located
south of its office on Stone Avenue.
The greenhouse was built last fall
and relied on heat from the SchausVorhies plant to keep the soil warm
From p. 1A
over the winter.
The way the greenhouse harnesses energy from the neighboring
building is through a system of
pipes filled with water that create a
reverse geothermal system whereby
heat is captured above ground (in
the building) and stored below
ground in a large tank.
Hot air in the Schaus-Vorhies
building rises through a stack and
heats a nearby tube filled with
water, raising the water temperature
to nearly 200 degrees. By the time
that water travels to the tank underground, it has cooled slightly to 170
degrees. The tank is adjacent to the
greenhouse outside. Another system
of tubes transfers the heat from the
tank into the soil under the plants,
allowing the greenhouse to grow
vegetables year-round.
What does the future hold for
Schaus-Vorhies? Schaus said he is
considering building an addition
onto the west end of the Grimes
Avenue office. Nelson said PaintLine has become so busy that it is
running out of storage space for all
its products.
Schaus-Vorhies Kleaning removes paint from tools by heating them to 800 degrees in a fluidized sand
bed, seen here.
A Paint-Line employee removes tools from a conveyor belt as they cool after being painted.
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175 years young
Fairfield has been city of ‘firsts’ throughout its history
By VICKI TILLIS
Ledger lifestyles editor
Since its beginning, Fairfield area
residents have brought many
“firsts” to the state and the nation:
the first Iowa State Fair; the first
Carnegie Library, the first golf club
and the first malleable iron foundry
west of the Mississippi River; and
the nation’s first permanent public
power installation.
More recently, Fairfield has
gained distinction for being home
to Transcendental Meditation and
the Maharishi University of
Management that attracts students
from around the world and helps
create a community of diverse cultures and opportunities.
In the beginning
American Indians and adventurous explorers had lived in and visited Jefferson County for many years
before families started moving into
the area in 1836.
The first white child born in the
area, William Henry Coop, the son
of William G. and Nancy Harris
Coop, was born July 13, 1836, in a
covered wagon where his family
was living while busting sod and
building a home.
Today, a statue of Coop as an
older man telling his history to a
young boy of today sits near the
Ron Prill Bandstand in Central Park
signifying a link between the past
and the present.
In 1839, the western part of
Henry County became Jefferson
County, and a group set out to find
a site for the county seat. After
selecting a bit of prairie near the
center of the county, they marked
the spot by driving a stake into
what is now Fairfield’s Central
Park.
One of the early area settlers,
Nancy Bonnifield, suggested naming the new town Fairfield for the
fair field in which it sat.
The Bonnifield cabin, where
Fairfield was named, was built in
1838. It was moved eight miles
from its original site into Old
Settlers Park in 1912, and is now
the oldest, still-standing dwelling
built by a white man in Iowa.
Just a month after surveyors plotted the new city, the first general
store opened, and since then,
Fairfield has grown into a commu-
nity influenced by agriculture,
industry and education.
Historic Review
Fairfield has the distinction of
being the “first” — the city with the
first Carnegie Library west of the
Mississippi River, the site of the
first golf club west of the
Mississippi, the first malleable iron
foundry west of the Mississippi, the
nation’s first permanent public
power installation — but the first
the city is most proud of is being
the site of the inaugural Iowa State
Fair.
The idea for a state fair began
with an article in the April 11,
1853, Ledger newspaper suggesting
a fair and recommending Fairfield
as the location because, at the time,
it was the center of the state’s population.
Later that year, the newly organized statewide agricultural association scheduled the first state fair to
begin Oct. 25, 1854, in Fairfield.
The fair was on six acres of land
donated by Henn, Williams & Co.
between West Grimes and West
Lowe avenues and North Second
and North Fourth streets.
The entrance to the fairgrounds
was on the corner of North Fourth
Street and West Grimes Avenue. A
10-foot-tall rail fence surrounded
the grounds, which included a long
shed protecting a five-foot-wide,
250-foot-long table; 130 stalls; 60
pig pens; an office; a 25-foot-wide,
1,500-foot-round track with a rope
guard, a platform in the center for
speakers and judges; and space for
visitors. It cost $322.20.
Families came by covered wagons and horseback and stayed all
three days camping near the
grounds. On its busiest day, the fair
drew 8,000 visitors, who each paid
a 25-cent admission fee to see the
farm animal, crop and domestic
manufacturing contests, events and
exhibits.
Receipts totaled about $1,000.
After funds for bills and prizes
were taken out, there was a balance
of $50, and the association decided
to hold the second state fair beginning Oct. 10, 1855, in Fairfield.
The second state fair was on 10
acres opposite the southeast corner
of the city limits at the time. It drew
12,000 people on its busiest day.
After the second year, other cities
hosted the event until it moved to
Des Moines in 1879.
In Fairfield, the state fair grounds
grew up to grass, the fence was torn
down, and the grounds divided into
lots and covered up by buildings,
walks and roads of a growing city.
Seventy-one years after the first
fair, a historical marker, a gift from
the Log Cabin Chapter and Iowa
Society, Daughters of the American
Revolution, was set up at Fourth
Street and Grimes Avenue. The
large boulder’s bronze tablet proclaims it “Marks the Entrance to the
Site of the First Iowa State Fair,
Held at Fairfield October 25, 26,
27, 1854.”
To open the 100th Iowa State
Fair in 1954 and to commemorate
the first state fair in Fairfield, an
Iowa Centennial State Fair Caravan
left Fairfield at 8 a.m. Tuesday,
Aug. 24. By the time it pulled into
the state fairgrounds Friday evening, Aug. 27, it totaled 578 people
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The tower seen here was built in
1881 and stood 185 feet tall. It
displayed six 1,800-candle
power arc lights that were visible
more than 20 miles away in
Keosauqua.
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long caravan opened the Centennial
State Fair by parading around the
track in front of the grandstand.
A historical marker, set up by the
Fairfield Jayceettes in 1955 on the
southwest corner of Fairfield’s
Central Park, designates the park as
the starting point of the caravan.
A second plaque added to the
marker in 1970, states, “Official
records of 1954 Caravan are buried
below. Not to be opened until 2054
A.D., the 200th anniversary of the
Iowa State Fair.”
About 400 people from 17 states,
with 45 wagons and around 250
horses made a second caravan trip
from Fairfield to Des Moines in
August 2004 to commemorate the
150th anniversary of the fair and
the 50th anniversary of the 1954
caravan.
The caravan kickoff celebration
Saturday, Aug. 7, in Central Park
included the showing of a trophy
won by Jesse Hinshaw for his
2-year-old colt at the first Iowa
State Fair.
The small, less than three-inch
tall, engraved silver cup trophy is
believed to be the only existing
memento from the first Iowa State
Fair.
The 2005 caravan set out Sunday
morning Aug. 8 on its four-day trip
to Des Moines. The procession,
including special guest riders from
the 1954 caravan, paraded through
the state fairgrounds during opening day ceremonies Thursday, Aug.
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First library
The Fairfield Public Library
institution, organized in 1853, was
thought to be the first public library
in Iowa.
When Andrew Carnegie began
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U.S. Sen. James F. Wilson of
Fairfield, persuaded him to give
$30,000 to the Fairfield County
Library Association to build the
first Carnegie Library outside of
C a r n e g i e ’s h o m e s t a t e o f
Pennsylvania.
The square, red brick building
built in 1893 housed the Fairfield
Public Library until 1996 when it
moved into a new building better
suited to meet its modern-day
needs.
The Carnegie building now houses the Indian Hills Community
College’s Jefferson Center, and the
Carnegie Historical Museum collection of American Indian artifacts,
Parsons College and other local
memorabilia.
First permanent public power
The most famous early landmark
was a 185-foot light tower built in
1881 in Central Park when Fairfield
became the second city west of the
Mississippi River to have electricity.
The tower displayed six
1,800-candle power arc lights that
were visible more than 20 miles
away in Keosauqua.
According to the American
Public Power Association, the
tower was the nation’s first permanent public power installation and it
marked the birth of the electric
industry.
Fairfield’s public power venture
ended in 1899 when the city council sold the tower and equipment to
the Fairfield Gas and Electric
Company. The tower remained in
service until 1910 when it was
declared unsafe and torn down.
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The first white child born in the area was William Henry Coop, the son of William G. and Nancy Harris
Coop. He was born July 13, 1836, in a covered wagon where his family was living while busting sod and
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First golf course
Fairfield’s Kahgahgee Golf Club
organized in May 1892 shortly after
Dr. James F. Clarke returned from a
medical conference with a wooden
driver and three balls. The first
game was played in a pasture, with
seven empty tomato cans as holes.
In 1900, the club purchased its
own land near D Street and Jackson
Avenue, and is now the Fairfield
Golf & Country Club.
Raymond Brown passes out fried chicken during a chow rest stop in Batavia during the 1954 Iowa
Centennial State Fair Caravan to a group of children including Wayne Mitchell, 9, Carl Brown, 10, Ray
Brown, 13, Stevie Mitchell, 5, and Orville Brown, 9. Orville Brown grew up to be the wagon master of the
2004 caravan.
Expanding health care
Jefferson County Hospital,
Iowa’s second oldest county hospital, opened Oct. 2, 1912. A bond
issue of $25,000 was voted to build
the three-story, 25-bed hospital. It
was only the second time in world
history that rural people voted a tax
on themselves to build a hospital;
neighboring Washington County
had been the first by a few months.
Now, known as Jefferson County
Health Center — a name reflecting
the organization’s commitment to
total health care — the hospital
moved into a new modern facility
along Highway 1 south of Fairfield
in April 2009.
While room for growth was
included in the new health center’s
design, it was full in three years,
and an addition was added on the
north side to house a pharmacy and
several clinics. Plus, this year, the
JCHC Professional Clinic area was
remodeled to accommodate the
McCreery Cancer Center.
From kindergarten
through college
Beginning with Fairfield’s first
settlers who taught their children at
home, education has always been
valued.
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the option of sending their children
to one of the private schools in
Fairfield or even homeschooling
them, most enroll their youngsters
in the Fairfield Community School
District.
The district encompasses 354
square miles, the fourth largest in
Iowa in geographic area. In 201314, the official kindergarten
through 12th grade enrollment was
1,660 students at the four attendance centers.
This summer, the Fairfield school
district has started making millions
of dollars worth of improvements
to the 80-plus year old high school.
Another educational opportunity
in Fairfield was Parsons College.
The college was founded in 1875
and named for Lewis Baldwin
Parsons, a New York Presbyterian
who willed his estate to create an
institution of higher learning in
Iowa. Classes began that fall with
34 students in a brick mansion built
by Bernhart Henn.
The college achieved national
notoriety in the 1950s and ’60s,
under the direction of Millard G.
Roberts, who instituted what he
called the “Parsons Plan” and
raised enrollment from 236 to more
than 5,000.
Under Roberts’ plan, the college
began making a profit. He hired
more professors and enrolled students who had been academically
unsuccessful. Life magazine
labeled Roberts “the wizard of
Flunk-out U” in 1966.
Parsons lost its accreditation in
1967, and Roberts was dismissed.
The college regained its accreditation, but couldn’t recover from the
financial damage and closed June 2,
1973.
Although Parsons College no
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longer exists, its alumni still gather
in Fairfield to mark the anniversaries of important events in its history.
A year after Parsons closed, the
campus was purchased by
Maharishi International University,
now Maharishi University of
Management.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who
taught a Transcendental Meditation
technique and revived the ancient
Vedic tradition of India, founded
MIU in 1971.
All academic disciplines are
taught in the “light of pure consciousness,” which promotes success in learning and life by systematically developing the total functioning of a student’s brain.
Students from around the world
are enrolled in on- and off-campus
studies.
The most recognized buildings
on campus are the golden Patanjali
Dome for men and Bagambhrini
Dome for women, where TM practitioners meditate twice daily. The
domes are sometimes opened for
demonstrations of meditation techniques, which include levitating.
Spectators often describe the meditators’ levitation as “bouncing” or
“leaping.”
Many of the original Parsons
College structures were torn down
to make way for new buildings that
meet the needs of M.U.M. and are
constructed in Maharishi Vastu
style, which places precise attention
to orientation of direction, placement of rooms, specific measurements and use of natural materials.
Parts of razed Parsons Collegeera buildings were saved and incorporated into other community
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William Louden started Louden Machinery Co. in Fairfield in 1887 after patenting his hay carrier, pictured here, 20 years earlier. The hay carrier, which eliminated the task of pitching hay from the ground
into a hayloft, was transformed into the nation’s first industrial monorail system in 1917 and was used to
move scrap metal in munitions production plants during World War I.
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The above photo was the newest in service stations
and the year was 1959. The facility was a pilot plant
put up by Standard. It used the latest equipment and
was the first planned by Standard in a 15-state area.
Managers were Everett Smithburg and Earl Perry.
...And now, 2014
Soon after Harold
Norton took over
in 1968, the station
changed from
Standard to Amoco.
An extension
was added to the
building, and later
overhead canopies
were added
in 1984.
Everett Smithburg’s
grandson, Dave,
purchased
Norton’s Amoco
in November 2000
and changed the
name to Smithburg
Automotive, Inc.
A few years later, the business was updated to a BP Service Station and
Repair Facility. Dave Smithburg has continued his family’s tradition of
full-service automotive repairs, as well as offering a selection of quality
pre-owned vehicles for purchase.
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Studio 100
Stacey Martin takes her hairdressing talents next door
By ANDY HALLMAN
Ledger news editor
Vi s i t o r s t o t h e c o r n e r o f
Fairfield’s Court Street and
Broadway Avenue have noticed a
slight change of scenery this year.
Stacey Martin, owner of Studio
100 Hair Salon, has expanded her
business from its location on North
Court Street into the barbershop
formerly run by Larry Hall. Hall,
who also owns the building, retired
at the end of 2013 after more than
50 years in business. The time had
come for him to find a new tenant
for the building.
Martin said she found out about
Hall’s retirement by reading it in
The Ledger. The first thing that
came to her mind was “I hope he’s
not selling it, because he’s a great
landlord.”
At the time, Martin was not
thinking of expanding her business
as she was content to manage the
space she had just north of Hall’s
former shop. But after awhile, she
began to seriously consider the
prospect of expansion. Her dad,
Bob Martin, once quipped that she
could easily put an interior door
leading from her salon to Hall’s
shop. That’s exactly what she did.
Less than a month after Hall’s
retirement, Martin told Hall she
would like to rent his former space
in the building. She got the keys on
Feb. 1 and began remodeling shortly thereafter. She and her father
designed the new space to match
the color and style of her existing
salon. The new space was ready to
debut to the public in late May. To
accommodate the increasing customer demand, Martin hired hair
stylist Abbye Snowgren of
Keosauqua.
Martin has owned Studio 100 for
eight years. For two years before
then, she was an employee. When
the former owner moved to Indiana,
she seized the opportunity and
bought the business.
She has been in the industry for
13 years, dating back to her first job
as a stylist at Rosie’s Hair Salon in
Fairfield. This wasn’t a career she
saw herself in when she was contemplating careers in high school.
After high school, she put some
thought into becoming a hairdresser
and how much fun it would be.
Her aunt, Barb, was a stylist in
Mt. Pleasant. She encouraged
Martin to follow her gut and do
what would make her happy. After
13 years, going to work still puts a
smile on her face.
“The part of the job I like best is
making people feel good about
themselves,” she said. “I like having my own schedule and having
different things to do every day.”
Martin enjoys experimenting with
new hairstyles, and luckily for her,
she has a willing subject on which
to experiment. She has an 18-year-
Hairdresser Stacey Martin, left, puts a smile on customer Sherry
Jipp’s face as she dries her hair during a recent appointment.
Stacey Martin of Studio 100 Hair Salon has expanded her business on North Court Street into the building formerly occupied by Larry Hall’s barbershop. Martin remodeled the space earlier this year and
opened it to the public in May.
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old daughter, Sesali, who has
always had long hair, perfect for
braiding, ponytails, highlighting,
coloring and practically anything
else that can be done with hair.
“Now she’s telling me she wants
to become a stylist, too,” Martin
said.
As a matter of fact, Martin said
she could use another stylist in her
shop before too long. She has built
a large clientele in the 10 years she
has worked at Studio 100 Hair
Salon.
“We’re usually booked solid from
when we open in the morning until
we close in the evening,” she said.
Studio 100 Hair Salon is open
Tuesday through Friday, and occasionally other days for special
events such as proms and weddings.
Martin has to stay up to date on
what is en vogue and what is not,
and that can be tricky.
“It seems like every year the
styles change,” she said. “Some
years curly hair is popular, while
other years straight hair or short
hair is popular.”
It’s not just fashion she has to follow, either. Martin takes continuing
education classes to gain a better
understanding of highlighting and
coloring techniques as well as new
hair care products. She said certain
techniques, such as highlighting,
can only be done by a professional.
She’s seen the effects of amateurs
trying to treat their hair with chemicals. She said she’s had to fix quite
a few heads of hair because the person tried unsuccessfully to bleach
it.
“Bleach can damage your hair if
you don’t know how to use it,” she
said. “Sometimes their hair turns
out orange, or they put so much
bleach on it that they fry it.”
Martin said she feels men are
reluctant to go to a beauty salon,
but she wants them to know she
welcomes them into her shop. She
does accept walk-ins but said setting up an appointment is preferred.
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Remember when...
Gasoline was under $1.00 a gallon
and a loaf of bread cost 39¢? It was
September 3, 1978, and Fairfield’s first
full service gas station/convenience
store, PEP STOP, opened its doors.
Though our name has changed since then, our commitment to
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buildings. Some of the Barhydt
Chapel stained glass windows
were saved and installed at First
Presbyterian Church and Jefferson
C o u n t y H e a l t h C e n t e r. T h e
Barhydt organ was salvaged,
restored and installed in the
Fairfield Arts & Convention
Center’s Stephen Sondheim Center
for the Performing Arts, and a
bench and light pedestal made
from Barhydt Chapel stones was
recently dedicated on the lawn of
the Carnegie Historical Museum.
The day Parsons College closed, June 2, 1973, was such a somber
occasion that flags were flown at half-staff.
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Industrious leaders
One of Fairfield’s earliest manufacturers was Turney Wagon
Works. It started in 1848 near
Trenton, but moved to Fairfield to
be closer to a railroad in 1888.
The factory built eight different
models of Charter Oak wagons and
a line of Fairfield wagons, producing more than 500 wagons each
year.
Tu r n e y Wa g o n Wo r k s w a s
Fairfield’s largest employer for
many years, but it ceased operations in 1932.
William Louden started Louden
Machinery Co. in Fairfield in 1887
after patenting his hay carrier 20
years earlier.
The hay carrier, which eliminated the task of pitching hay from
the ground into a hayloft, was
transformed into the nation’s first
industrial monorail system in 1917
and was used to move scrap metal
in munitions production plants
during World War I.
From p. 5A
Louden also started a barn planning service in 1906 and by 1939
had planned more than 25,000
barns throughout the world. In
later years, the barn line was
phased out and the company concentrated on overhead conveyer
systems.
Louden Machinery Co., known
by several different names
throughout the years, closed in
early 2004.
Examples of its barns and equipment can be found at the recently
restored Maasdam Barns site south
of Fairfield along Highway 1.
Harper Brush Works started
when A.K. Harper began making
brooms in 1900 to pay his way
through Parsons College. The
c o m p a n y, h e a d q u a r t e r e d o n
Second Street, expanded several
times before opening a second
plant in the Fairfield Industrial
Park. Its line of brooms, brushes
and other items can be found in
home improvement stores across
the nation. Cequent Consumer
Products, a market leader in automotive aftermarket products and
household cleaning tools, purchased the Harper Brush assets in
December 2012.
Fairfield Line, a manufacturer of
athletic and advertising apparel
items, was first known as Fairfield
Glove and Mitten Company and
later Fairfield Glove Company.
The company got its start in 1900,
and continues today.
The Dexter Company, founded
in 1901, moved to Fairfield in
1912. The company made washing
machines; the Dexter-Double-Tub
became a household word throughout the nation.
A few years after Dexter produced its first automatic washer in
1951, it shifted to manufacturing
commercial washers and dryers.
In 1920, Dexter started its own
foundry producing gray iron castings for its own and other firms’
products.
After several months of negotiations in 2010, the Foundry was
sold to Revstone LLC, a global
company with executive offices in
Lexington, Kentucky, Detroit,
Michigan, New York and the
Netherlands, and manufacturing
facilities across the United States,
Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico.
The foundry was sold by Dexter
Apache Holdings Inc., which continues to own Dexter Laundry,
Fairfield’s largest manufacturing
employer.
But before the Dexter foundry,
there was Iowa Malleable Iron
Company, the first malleable iron
foundry west of the Mississippi
River.
Iowa Malleable started in 1903
to supply malleable iron castings
for Louden Machinery and
Ottumwa’s Dane Manufacturing. It
closed in the 1990s.
Although many of the early
industries no longer exist, they laid
the groundwork each succeeding
generation continues to build on to
meet the demands of the community, state, nation and world.
Recreational pastimes
Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk has
been a monthly event since October
2002. The free walk is 6:30 to 9:30
p.m. the first Friday of every month
on and near the Fairfield square.
Galleries and art venues showcase regional, national and international art exhibits, and the events
are splashed with family-friendly
entertainment, music and activities.
The city and Jefferson County
also boasts 22 miles of trails for
hikers and bicycle riders.
Future plans
Fairfield leaders today are laying
plans in hopes of drawing more visitors, businesses and residents to
continue the community’s success.
Fairfield Iowa Convention and
Visitors Bureau continues to promote the city as a tourist destination. The city council is looking
into downtown improvements to
make the area even more attractive
to businesses and visitors; Fairfield
Area Chamber of Commerce is
assisting businesses interested in
moving to or expanding and staying
in Fairfield, and the Fairfield
Economic Development
Association hopes to grow the local
economy by enticing former residents to move back to town through
the “Welcome Home to Iowa:
Fairfield Connection.”
Fairfield businesses and residents, as they have throughout history, will continue to evolve to
meet and surpass the needs of the
community.
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