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church in 1976 and have worked to maintain and restore it as funds allow. Adair today has an estimated six residences and population of less than thirty. Only one vacant building of the former business district remains. Law enforcement is provided by the Adair County
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By the 1970s, little remained of Adair. All the businesses had long since closed and perhaps a dozen occupied homes remained. St. Mary's
Catholic Church long the backbone of the community, held its final mass in December 1972. A non-profit group, the Friends of St. Mary's, assumed possession of the
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an attorney from Adair, a Mr. Clancy, wrote glowing editorials to newspapers back in Ohio praising the fine farmland and urging more Irish migration. Among the early settlers was
Michael C. Cody, who had previously been involved in the steamboat trade. He arrived in Adair in 1855 and in the late
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1860s donated a large tract of land for the village cemetery. Although Adair had yet to be incorporated or even platted, the populace was such that in
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drilled a test well near Adair and oil was struck. However it was determined to not be of sufficient quality or quantity to interest major oil companies in further development.
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