Fairmount Wedding

Fairmount is a town in Grant County in east central Indiana. The population was 2,992 at the 2000 census. It is ninety kilometers (fifty-five miles) northeast of Indianapolis. Largely a bed town to its three thousand citizens, Fairmount is best known as the boyhood home of actor James Dean, who is buried there.

The Fairmount area was settled in the 1830's mostly by Quakers from North Carolina. The town was laid out in 1850 and named for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia; it was formally incorporated in 1870.

After a large deposit of natural gas was found in 1887, Fairmount became a center of the glass industry for the rest of the nineteenth century. Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom town, restoring some of its lost prosperity.

Fairmount is located at 40254N, 853856W (40.417702, -85.648942)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.8 km (1.5 mi), all land.