A history of Fair Haven,
since 1779
Postcards, papers and photographs of Fair Haven from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Fair Haven was chartered on October 27, 1779, to Ebenezer Allen and 76 associates, and first settled the same year. The township originally included West Haven, which was set off on October 20, 1792. The post office at Fair Haven was established in 1797. In 1783, Colonel Matthew Lyon moved to Fair Haven and began building mills at the falls on the Castleton River. His enterprises included a gristmill, sawmill and papermill, in addition to a forge, as well as a newspaper, the Fair Haven Gazette. This began Fair Haven's legacy as a small, prosperous mill town, which by 1859 included a marble mill, rolling mill, nail factory, papermill producing wallpaper, three sawmills, a wagon shop, a machine shop, two blacksmith shops, and two shoe shops.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Fair Haven’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFair Haven, Vt, 1886: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Fair Haven, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Fair Haven, Vt (1886) and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (9), the Library of Congress (2) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.