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 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.

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

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.

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

Fairhaven is approximately south of Boston, by land west of Cape Cod, and southeast of Providence, Rhode Island.

Cushman Park, as well as having tennis courts and ballfields and a bandstand, is the location of Fairhaven High School's running track.

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

Fairhaven is the home of the Acushnet Company, a world-renowned manufacturer of golf equipment.

Fairhaven is also home to Nye Lubricants, a firm dealing in industrial lubricants and whose history dates back to 1844.

Fairhaven is located in the 10th Bristol state representative district, which includes all of Fairhaven, Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester, as well as a portion of Middleborough.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Today, the student newspaper at Fairhaven High School is called " The Spray ".

He was also a generous philanthropist, providing many public works for his hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, and financially assisting helping such notables as Mark Twain, Helen Keller, and Dr. Booker T. Washington.

A Fairhaven office was also open from 1911 until 1957.

Two private schools also operate in Chesterton: St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School and Fairhaven Baptist Academy.

Fairhaven was also a whaling port ; in fact, in the year 1838, Fairhaven was the second-largest whaling port in the United States, with 24 vessels sailing for the whaling grounds.

Other than Rogers, Fairhaven was also home to:

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.

Marion is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Tenth Bristol district, which also includes Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, Rochester and a portion of Middleborough.

There is also a state-managed wildlife area, commonly known as Nunes Farm, along the waterfront near the Fairhaven line.

Mattapoisett is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Tenth Bristol district, which also includes Fairhaven, Marion, Rochester and a portion of Middleborough.

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.

He was also a generous philanthropist, providing many public works for his hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts and financially assisting helping such notables as Mark Twain, Helen Keller, and Booker T. Washington.

A public swimming beach is located at Fairhaven beach, also on Pomme de Terre Lake.

Fairhaven also plays outdoor movies every weekend during the summer.

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.

They are Fairhaven Golf Club and perhaps the most well known, St Annes Old Links Golf Club, which has also hosted many other top events in the golfing calendar.

While vacationing in Fairhaven in 1862, Rogers married his childhood sweetheart, Abbie Palmer Gifford, who was also of Mayflower lineage.

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.

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

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.

It is bordered by Fairhaven to the southwest, Acushnet to the northwest, Rochester to the north, and Marion to the east.

He was formally received at Washington D. C., and he took advantage of this opportunity by traveling overland to Fairhaven, Massachusetts to visit his " foster father ", Captain Whitfield.

Manjiro, a young fisherman, was shipwrecked off the coast of Japan in 1841 and rescued by whaling captain William Whitfield of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

* Fairhaven United Reformed Church, Clifton Drive South ; opened 17 October 1912 ; built by Briggs, Wolstenholme & Thornley ; known locally as the " White Church ".

After the young family moved to New York in 1866, Cara Leland Rogers was born in Fairhaven in 1867, Millicent was born in 1873, followed by Mary ( a. k. a. Mai ) in 1875.

The house and its grounds are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public as part of the Anglesey Abbey, Garden & Lode Mill property, although some parts remain the private home of the Fairhaven family.

The grounds were laid out in an 18th-century style by the estate's last private owner, the 1st Baron Fairhaven, in the 1930s.

In 1615 the Dutch arrived with a fleet of eleven ships and three men-of-war under Adriaen Block, occupied Fairhaven, Bell Sound, and Horn Sound by force, and built the first permanent structure on Spitsbergen: a wooden hut to store their equipment in.

The ten ships sent by the Muscovy Company were relegated to the south side of Fairhaven, Sir Thomas Smith's Bay, and Ice Sound.

At the time, The New Bedford Standard-Times commented " It must be a source of gratification to all Americans, and especially to us here and in Fairhaven, that the presentation of this historic spot as public ground has been brought about by an American woman, an appropriate enough circumstance considering that the great charter underlies the UsA's conception of government and human rights.