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Fairhaven

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Fairhaven, residential town (1990 pop. 16,132), Bristol co., SE Mass., at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzards Bay, opposite New Bedford; settled 1670, set off from New Bedford and inc. 1812. A former whaling center, from which Herman Melville sailed in 1841, Fairhaven has commercial fishing industries, boatyards, and plants making machinery, tires, mattresses, and nails. It is also a summer resort.


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The lad was only in the team because two of Worcestershire's top guns were playing in the Fairhaven Trophy but he could be a regular now.
for several years and was employed by the Town of Fairhaven Board of Health.
He won the Fairhaven Trophy event and has top finishes in several other national tournaments.
 
 
 
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