Located on the North coast of Buzzards Bay, Fairhaven shares the harbor with the major fishing city of New Bedford. Perhaps half the New Bedford fleet is probably from Fairhaven as it likely was during the heyday of whaling. Fairhaven is located along Route I-195, between Providence, RI, and Cape Cod.
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The area was first settled by the American Indians, then the Pilgrims. The American Revolution brought warfare and the first American naval battle in 1775. The British attacked and torched part of the town in1778. Joshua Slocum rebuilt the sloop SPRAY and sailed it around the world. Henry Huttleston Rogers built nearly all the significant architecture in the town. For over 100 years a mainstay for recreation and entertainment was Lincoln Park, in North Dartmouth. See a Lincoln Park Video here.
Fairhaven High School donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Fairhaven High School addition, Fairhaven
Rear view Fairhaven High School donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Fairhaven High School former gym donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Fairhaven High School Auditorium ceiling
Fairhaven High School Room 7 donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Fairhaven High School Room 7 with several of the Class of 1961
Fairhaven High School addition, lockers, Fairhaven
Fairhaven High School class of 1954 stained glass window with motto CARPE DIEM, Fairhaven
Millicent Library donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven, in 1893. His daughter MIllicent died of heart failure in 1890 at 17 years old.
Rectory donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Unitarian Church donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Fairhaven Town Hall donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
First Congregational Church, Fairhaven
Rogers School donated by Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven
Swans and chicks, Mill Pond, Fairhaven
Blue Heron, Mill Pond, Fairhaven
Blue Heron, Mill Pond, Fairhaven
Model of sloop SPRAY sailed around the world by Joshua Slocum, Old School Museum, Fairhaven. He rebuilt the 36 ft. ship in a field in the Poverty Point area of Oxford. In 1899 he wrote of his travels in Sailing Alone Around the World.
