In 1789, the towns of Westport and New Bedford, which included Fairhaven and Acushnet, separated and were incorporated as towns themselves.

Fairhaven eventually separated from New Bedford, and it was officially incorporated in 1812.

On January 3, 1841, he sailed from Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet, which was bound for the Pacific Ocean.

A Fairhaven office was also open from 1911 until 1957.

There is one free camping site in the National Park at Fairhaven, 4 km up the coast road from Tankerton Jetty, where the ferry arrives from Stony Point.

The northern portion of Fairhaven, upriver from Buzzards Bay, formed another independent town, called Acushnet, in 1860.

An attack on Fairhaven village itself was repelled by militia under the command of Major Israel Fearing, who had marched from Wareham, some away, with additional militiamen.

Fearing's heroic action saved Fairhaven from further molestation.

The famous whaling port of New Bedford is located across the Acushnet River from Fairhaven.

The author of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, departed from the port of Fairhaven aboard the whaleship Acushnet in 1841.

Fairhaven has its own school department, with three elementary schools ( Leroy L. Wood, East Fairhaven, and Rogers, which is named for H. H. Rogers and his family ), one middle school ( Elizabeth Hastings Middle School ), and Fairhaven High School, which also accommodates some high school students from neighboring Acushnet.

In 1899, Northern Pacific Railway developer Nelson Bennett began laying track from the town of Fairhaven, northwest on Bellingham Bay, and real estate developer Norman R. Kelley platted a new town of Sedro on high ground a mile northwest of Cook's site.

The Fairhaven and Southern Railroad arrived in Sedro on Christmas Eve 1899, in time for Bennett to receive a performance bonus from the towns at both ends, and a month after Washington became the 42nd state in the Union.

The sands and tidal mudflats of the area ( the mouth of the River Ribble ) are an important feeding area for wintering waders and the RSPB operate a visitor centre from Fairhaven Lake to provide information and guided walks.

The family moved to nearby Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a fishing village across the Acushnet River from the great whaling port, New Bedford.

When Pratt met Rogers at McClintocksville on a business trip, he already knew Charles Ellis, having earlier bought whale oil from him back east in Fairhaven.

Painkalac Creek, which separates Aireys Inlet from Fairhaven, forms a salt lake or inlet behind the sand dunes before it cuts through to the ocean.

Previously, Pratt had bought whale oil from Ellis in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, his and Rogers ' coastal hometown.

The river downstream of Preston was actively dredged when Preston was an active port ; this is no longer done and silt from the river is now spreading more widely over the ( sand ) beaches around Fairhaven and St. Annes.

Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Bloedel moved from Wisconsin to Fairhaven, Washington ( later Bellingham ) in 1890, where he became president of Fairhaven National Bank.

Although he and the very-private Rogers openly became visible to the public as friends, and Washington was a frequent guest at Rogers ' New York office, his Fairhaven, Massachusetts summer home, and aboard his steam yacht Kanawha, the true depth and scope of their relationship was not publicly revealed until after Rogers ' sudden death of an stroke in May 1909.

" This includes the land of the towns of Westport, Fairhaven, and Acushnet, and the city of New Bedford.

The town is represented in the state senate in the Second Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes the city of New Bedford and the towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and Mattapoisett.

This new town included areas that are the present-day towns of Fairhaven, Acushnet, and New Bedford itself.

Fort Phoenix ( now the Fort Phoenix State Reservation ) is located in Fairhaven at the mouth of the Acushnet River, and it served, during colonial and revolutionary times, as the primary defense against seaborne attacks on New Bedford harbor.

They burned ships and warehouses in New Bedford, skirmished at the Head-of-the-River bridge ( approximately where the Main Street bridge in Acushnet is presently situated ), and marched through Fairhaven to Sconticut Neck, burning homes along the way.

Fairhaven is also crossed by U. S. Route 6, which enters the town on a bridge between the mainland and Pope's Island, which is connected to the rest of New Bedford by the New Bedford – Fairhaven Bridge, a swing-span truss bridge over one hundred years old.

SRTA provides bus service between Fairhaven and New Bedford, as well as two short shuttle routes between the town and Acushnet and Mattapoisett.

New Bedford also is the location of the nearest airport to Fairhaven, the New Bedford Regional Airport.

The town is represented in the state senate in the 2nd Bristol-Plymouth district, which includes the city of New Bedford and the towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and Mattapoisett.

* Christopher Reeve ( 1952 – 2004 ), of Superman fame, kept a sailboat, the sloop-rigged Chandelle, at a Fairhaven shipyard and sometimes flew into New Bedford Regional Airport to pick it up or to stay in town during a stopover en route to Martha's Vineyard.

The settlers used the land to build the colonial town of Old Dartmouth ( which encompassed not only present-day Dartmouth, but also present-day New Bedford, Acushnet, Fairhaven, and Westport ).

The construction of a bridge ( originally a toll bridge ) between New Bedford and present-day Fairhaven in 1796 also spurred growth.

New Bedford is a coastal city, a seaport, bordered on the west by Dartmouth, on the north by Freetown, on the east by Acushnet and Fairhaven, and on the south by Buzzards Bay.

New Bedford Harbor, a body of water shared with Fairhaven, is actually the estuary of the Acushnet River where it empties into Buzzards Bay.

Two conventional bridges connect each of the islands to the nearest mainland, Fish Island to New Bedford and Pope's Island to Fairhaven.

He began a program of self-education, later becoming a schoolteacher in Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport.

Fairhaven was incorporated in 1812 and was already steeped in history when " Hen " Rogers was just a boy.

In 1793, Bates ' family moved to the part of New Bedford, Massachusetts that would become the township of Fairhaven in 1812.

When it comes time to move onto " concentrated studies " students have the option of pursuing any of the majors or minors offered by Western Washington University, but may also choose to shape their own interdisciplinary concentration or major, combining independent study, internships, and Western Washington University courses with Fairhaven courses to define their course of study.

Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

Fairhaven was first settled in 1659 as " Cushnea ", the easternmost part of the town of Dartmouth.

Fairhaven became a town of shipwrights, ship chandlers, ropemakers, coopers, and sailmakers.

Most of the town's population lies either in the west side of town, along Sconticut Neck or in the village of East Fairhaven, with the northeast quarter of the town's land sparsely populated.

Fairhaven is governed by a representative town meeting, run by a board of selectmen and an executive secretary.

The town has one library ( the Millicent Library ), two fire stations ( the Central and East Fairhaven stations ), a central police department, and one post office, located behind the library.

The Fairhaven police department is located on Washington Street, a kilometre east of the center of town.

Fairhaven High School, donated by Rogers in 1906, is the most recognizable landmark in the town, given its prominent location on Route 6 ( Huttleston Avenue ) and its impressive appearance.

In 1815, a portion of the town was annexed by Fairhaven, which at the time controlled Acushnet, Massachusetts.

The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Second Bristol and Plymouth district, which also includes Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven and New Bedford.

Burlington's main business used to be on Fairhaven St. Now it is a gathering for the whole town in the summer for the annual Berry Dairy Days.

Captain Whitfield took him back to the United States and entrusted him to James Akin, who enrolled Manjirō in the Oxford School in the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.