 The 1969 amalgamation of unincorporated Halifax County communities such as Fairview, Rockingham, and Spryfield saw the village become part of the City of Halifax.Fairview also became home to one of Halifax's first suburban high schools in 1958 when Halifax West Municipal High School (later changed to Halifax West High School in 1969, opened on Dutch Village Road.Through the 1960s, Fairview continued to fill in as its housing densified and the last subdivision to be completed in the community was Keystone Court in 1990.