During the 1910 fires, fire fighters hopping off a train here at two in the morning wondered, "why anyone bothered to give this spot a name."
In fact, Adair started out several years earlier as a boisterous railroad construction tent camp housing almost 400 men. Enterprising fellows quickly set up a saloon and bawdy house in the neighborhood.
After the railroad was built, and the first crowds left, Adair became a terminal for loading logs onto railcars. The logs were sluiced down a flume from upper Loop Creek. During World War I, Adair was the shipping point for tons of copper ore from the Richmond Mine. In its heyday, Adair was busy enough to have its own post office and a school for 20 students.
By the 1970s, however, only a lonely section crewman was posted here.
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