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Fairmont
 Population 2010 Census: 18,704
 Median Age: 36.8 years
 
Courthouse: Completed 1965Architect: Robert L. Brown
 
 
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 | Formed: 1842 Named: In honor of General Francis Marion of the Revolutionary War, known as the "Swamp Fox."
 County Seat: Fairmont
 Land in Square Miles: 308.74
 Population 2010 Census:  56,418
 Persons per Square Mile 2010: 182.7
 
Primary Sources OnlineTearing Down of Old Courthouse
 Talk Between Pierpont and Campbell
 Monongah Disaster
 Recruitment of Immigrants: Fairmont and Elk Garden Fields
 Barrackville Disaster
 WMMN radio station in Fairmont
 Reilly Tar and Chemical, Fairmont
 Reminiscence of World War II
 1960 Presidential Campaign in Marion County
 Farmington Disaster
 
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