Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Fairdale, Illinois" in English language version.
Fairdale, formerly known as Fielding, was platted in 1876 and for a time was much larger and more prosperous than Kirkland.
In 1881 the Genoa school had commencement exercises... ...so at this time in the schools of Fairdale, Kirkland, Kingston, Malta, Cortland, Shabbona, Waterman, Hinckley, and Somonauk courses of study ranging from two to four years have been laid down and commencement exercises held accordingly.
Fielding was named for Albert Fielding. The post office was named for Wallace Koch, son of Henry and Julia A. Koch one of the town's founders. As years went by it became confusing to have two different names for the town and its post office - this prompted the change to Fairdale in January 1896.
