Fairfax is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States, with a population of 5,014 at the 2020 census.

Geography

The New England town of Fairfax is in southern Franklin County and is bordered by Chittenden County to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.44%, is water. The Lamoille River, a tributary of Lake Champlain, flows from east to west across the southern part of the town, passing through the communities of Fairfax and Fairfax Falls.

Demographics

As of the census

Bellows Free Academy – Fairfax is a public K–12 school in Fairfax. The school has an average graduating class of 80 from students drawn from Fairfax and the surrounding towns of Fletcher, Georgia, Fairfield, and Westford. As of 2010, the school's per-pupil tuition is $9,870 paid by the towns (sometimes from outside the school district) who send the students to the school.

Hiram Bellows bought of land and left money for the construction of a free school in Fairfax, Vermont. 'Bellows Free Academy – Fairfax and Saint Albans' was built from the money earned in stocks willed to the town by Bellows. The stocks had been invested in the Chicago Rock Island Railway. When the stocks had earned $250,000, the school was constructed. The original school burned on January 14, 1941,

  • James M. Hotchkiss (1812–1877), member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
  • Israel Bush Richardson (1815–1862), United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War and American Civil War

References

  • Town of Fairfax official website
  • Bellows Free Academy