Fairhaven, MA, History

The town of Fairhaven, MA, has a long and rich history dating back to its first settlement in the 1600s by early Plymouth colonists, includi...

NOVEMBER 1 1880 The directors of the National Bank of Fairhaven vote to install a telephone in the bank. 1929 The Tabitha Inn is purchas...

October 1 1870 In Acushnet, Jabez Taber dies in his 97th year, having lived in four towns—Dartmouth, New Bedford, Fairhaven and Acushnet—w...

September 1 1815 George Parker Swift is born in Fairhaven. Later in life he will establish the Muscogee Mills in Georgia, one of the nati...

  August 1 1800 Capt. Ansel Gibbs marries Lucy LeBaron. 1818 The sloop Carolina, Capt. Alden Allen, departs on a whaling voyage with a...