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Fairfield School for Boys 1857-1979

Fairfield County · 5900 BIS Rd SW, Lancaster, OH, 43130 -- In the visitor’s parking lot of the Southeastern Correctional Institute

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Side A: As the nation’s first and largest minimum security correctional facility, the Fairfield School for Boys served over 100,000 Ohio juvenile offenders. The school was converted to an adult facility in 1980. Presented by the Ridgeview Garden Club Side B: Same

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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