1896 The Selectmen and the School Committee award the contract for the construction of Oxford School to Brownell and Murkland of New Bedford.
1967 The Fairhaven Junior High School is renamed the Elizabeth I. Hastings Jr. High School, honoring its principal, who turned 69 the same day. Miss Hastings retired the following year after having worked for the school department since 1921.
1967 The addition to the Millicent Library is dedicated.
June 2
1851 The town votes to establish a high school.
June 3
1761 The Reverend Samuel West is ordained pastor of the Church of Christ at Head of the River. He will serve for 42 years.
1896 Two years after the death of his first wife Abbie, Henry H. Rogers marries Emilie Augusta (Randal) Hart.
June 4
1686 Seth Pope of Sconticut Neck is granted the commission of Lieutenant of the militia.
June 5
1886 A horse drawn trolley travels for the first time on the new southern extension to Fort Phoenix.
June 6
1668 John Cooke and his son-in-law Daniel Wilcox are granted a license to run a ferry across the Seconnet River between Tiverton and Portsmouth.
1994 Louis Vaudry is appointed Director of Veteran’s Services for the town.
June 7
1780 Massachusetts ratifies its state constitution.
1790 A committee of proprietors to build a church purchases a lot on the northeast corner of Main and Center streets from Benjamin and Joseph Church.
1894 Henry H. Rogers writes a letter to County Commissioner William Sanders urging the commissions relocate the Fairhaven entrance of the new bridge about 300 feet north of Bridge Street.
1918 The children of Henry H. Rogers set up an endowment fund in trust for the maintenance of Fairhaven High School.
1952 Ground is broken for the Fairhaven Junior High School, which will open the next year with Elizabeth I. Hastings as its first principal.
June 8
1664 The Town of Dartmouth, including Fairhaven, is incorporated.
1940 The last electric trolley line in town, North Fairhaven, is replaced with a bus route.
2002 Town Meeting votes to borrow and appropriate $23,000,000 to build, furnish and equip a new East Fairhaven School.
June 9
2002 The North Fairhaven Improvement Association holds a grand opening of the newly restored Fire Station #3 in North Fairhaven.
June 10
1802 The town of New Bedford is divided into two fire districts—eastern and western— and Fairhaven’s first volunteer fire department is organized.
June 11
1854 A barn on Water Street belonging to the estate of Joshua Delano is destroyed by fire and buildings on the north and south sides of it are damaged.
June 12
1821 James Endley and Hannah Sampson are married by Justice of the Peace James Taber.
June 13
1814 Enemy barges from the British frigate Nimrod are spotted and the Fort Phoenix cannons sound an alarm. The would-be attackers move on without landing.
1937 Fairhaven High School principal George C. Dickey, 47, dies after a brief illness. He had been principal at FHS for 18 years.
1952 On Junior Day, the centennial of Fairhaven High School is celebrated with the performance of “Three Tenses,” a pageant written and directed by Mabel G. (Hoyle) Knipe.
2007 Classes are held for the last time in Oxford School, with students moving to the new East Fairhaven School in the fall.
June 14
1841 Bartholomew Akin, the 14-year-old son of Ebenezer and Susan Akin, is killed on the New Bedford and Taunton Post Road.
June 15
1905 The Association of Sacred Hearts is established for both the women and men of St. Joseph’s parish. It will later become a women’s organization.
1986 The Millicent Library is added to the National Register of Historic Places.
June 16
1856 Henry David Thoreau, with friend Daniel Ricketson of New Bedford, visits Martha Simon, the last full-blooded Wampanoag Indian in the area, at her home on the west side of Sconticut Neck.
2018 The Huttleston Marketplace, operated by the Office of Tourism, opens with 30 booths set up on the lawns of the Visitors Center and Fairhaven High School.
June 17
1821 Humphrey Hathaway is born to George and Eliza Hathaway.
June 18
1901 The George H. Taber Masonic Lodge building, financed by Henry H. Rogers, is dedicated.
1931 The Fairhaven High School Association holds a clambake at Whitfield’s Pavilion, priced at $1.00, which is followed later in the evening by an annual meeting at the high school.
June 19
1812 Sybil Whitfield, mother of Capt. William H. Whitfield, dies at the age of 29. Eight-year-old William is raised by his grandparents.
June 20
1678 The King Philip War begins when colonists’ homes in Swansea are attacked by Native people.
1678 Dartmouth holds its first Town Meeting since the King Philip War.
1948 Henry H. Rogers 3rd, grandson of Henry H. Rogers, dies at the age of 43.
2013 Classes are held for the last time at Rogers School.
June 21
1892 Capt. Joshua Slocum launches his rebuilt sloop Spray at Poverty Point.
1908 The corner stone is laid for the Church of the Sacred Hearts at the corner of Main and Dover streets.
1946 The Macomber family open's Mac's Soda Bar on Sconticut Neck.
June 22
1747 Nathaniel Pope is born to Col. Seth and Abigail (Church) Pope.
1982 Classes are held for the last time at the Edmund Anthony Jr. School on Main Street.
2008 The first Fairhaven Farmers Market, sponsored by the town's Sustainability Committee, is held on the west lawn of Fairhaven High School.
June 23
1836 The ferry boat Fairhaven begins its first run across the Acushnet River.
2005 Classes are held for the last time at the old East Fairhaven School, which will be demolished prior to the construction of a new school.
June 24
2006 The Fairhaven Homecoming Day Fair, sponsored by the Fairhaven Improvement Association, is rained out for the first time in 31 years.
June 25
1816 The schooner Liberty, Capt. Peter Brock, departs with 14 men on a whaling voyage to the South Atlantic.
1955 Myra A. Powers and Curtis Lopes are married.
June 26
1885 A farewell exercise is held at the Center Street Grammar School. In the fall students will use the new Rogers School.
1917 A special Town Meeting appropriates $38,000 for the building of the Job C. Tripp School.
1931 The Fairhaven STAR announces the completion of a new Green Street extension from Doane Street south to the old Fort Way.
June 27
1841 Five Japanese fishermen, including young Manjiro Nakahama, are rescued from an island in the Pacific Ocean by the whaleship John Howland, William H. Whitfield, captain.
1901 Walter Silveira is born to Mr. & Mrs. Filbert A. Silveira. He will become Fairhaven’s longest serving selectman, in office 1944 to 1988.
2004 The last service is held at the Centre Methodist Church.
June 28
1865 Two month’s after the end of the Civil War the Fairhaven ship Favorite is captured and burned in the Bering Straits by the Confederate raider Shenandoah.
1975 The Fairhaven Bicentennial Celebration Colonial Fair is held in the center of town. The event’s success leads the Fairhaven Improvement Association to hold an annual “Homecoming Day Fair.”
1998 A celebration is held at Poverty Point commemorating the 100th anniversary of the completion of Capt. Joshua Slocum’s solo voyage around the world.
June 29
1775 Twenty-one-year-old Private Issachar Hathaway, a member of the first militia company from Dartmouth, dies at Roxbury, MA, twelve days after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
June 30
1828 The town pays Enoch S. Jenney $75 for about an acre of his property on Main Street in North Fairhaven for the creation of Woodside Cemetery.
1957 By mutual agreement, Mattapoisett and Fairhaven dissolve their school superintendency union. Flavel M. Gifford, who was superintendent for both towns, continues as Fairhaven’s Superintendent of Schools.
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