Fairhaven, MA

[gregrc75]

This might be a bit of a photo dump, but, I love to take photos when on my walks and runs with the dogs. Fairhaven has some beautiful buildings donated just over 100 years ago by benefactor Henry Huttleston Rogers.

 

[gregrc75]

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[shawn]

I had no idea Fairhaven looks like this!

 

[Lrfox]

Thanks for these! Fairhaven is easily one of my favorite, most underrated towns in MA. We buy fresh lobster and sometimes scallops directly from a boat at Union Wharf every couple of months when we're down that way. Can't beat it!

 

[gregrc75]

Thanks for these! Fairhaven is easily one of my favorite, most underrated towns in MA. We buy fresh lobster and sometimes scallops directly from a boat at Union Wharf every couple of months when we're down that way. Can't beat it!

I seems to just fly under the radar usually. Its a great small/midsized town.

 

[New England Born & Raised]

Henry H Rogers, the uber wealthy right hand man for John D Rockefeller, left his hometown of Fairhaven some truly magnificent buildings that remain to this day.

Henry H. Rogers - Fairhaven Office of Tourism

(1840-1909) Henry Huttleston Rogers was born in Fairhaven in 1840, the second of three children of Rowland and Mary (Huttleston) Rogers. As a boy he delivered newspapers, worked as a grocery clerk and was baggage master for the Fairhaven Branch Railroad. At the age of twenty-one, he left...

fairhaventours.com