FAIRHAVEN, a town of Bristol county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on Buzzard's bay, opposite New Bedford; served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway. The population in 1930 was 10,951. It is a summer resort, and has a number of fac tories, making tacks, laundry machines, small yachts and boats and toilet powder. From 1830 to 1857 whaling was the principal indus try, but the fishing interests are now relatively unimportant. Many of the public buildings were gifts from Henry H. Rogers (1840-1909), long vice president of the Standard Oil Company, who was a native of the place. Fairhaven was separated from New Bedford and incorporated as a town in 1812. In Sept. 1778, forces from the fleet under Lord Grey, sent to punish New Bed ford for its privateering, dismantled the small fort which had been built early in the war on the east side of the harbour; and a day or two later they began to set fire to Fairhaven, but were driven off by 150 minute-men under Major Israel Fearing. The fort was rebuilt at once, and during the war of 1812 (under the name of Ft. Phoenix) was one of the strongest defences on the New England coast.