Fair Hope is a small railroad station on the Baltimore & Ohio. The village was laid out about the close of the late war, and received its name from the fact that the citizens had then a speedy prospect of a railroad through the place. The village has not improved much during the last fifteen years. But with the development of minerals in its vicinity, it may yet attain some importance.
The North Savage Firebrick Works, of Welsh, Palmer & Maxwell, are located near Fair Hope. The works were started by Pittsburgh capitalists in 1881. They manufacture a superior quality of red brick, and are doing a good business.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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