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Fair Haven is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,734 at the 2010 census. Within the town is located the census-designated place of Fair Haven. The town is noted for its late 19th century residential and commercial architecture.〔The Historic Architecture of Rutland County, Vermont State Register of Historic Places, pg. 121-140〕 ==History== It 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.〔Esther Munroe Swift, Vermont Place Names. pgs. 394-395〕 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. 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 wall paper, three sawmills, a wagon shop, a machine shop, two blacksmith shops, and two shoe shops. 〔(Austin J. Coolidge & John B. Mansfield, ''A History and Description of New England;'' Boston, Massachusetts 1859 )〕 The quarrying and manufacture of slate began in 1846. Fair Haven would develop extensive quarries for the stone, believed at the time to be inexhaustible, which was supplied to cities along the Atlantic coast and in the West. Some of it was made into the framed, book-sized writing slates that students of the time used.〔 Image:Prospect Street, Fair Haven, VT.jpg|Prospect Street c. 1910 Image:Free Library, Fair Haven, VT.jpg|Free Library in 1914 Image:Slate Quarry and Mills, Fair Haven, VT.jpg|Slate quarry c. 1910 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fair Haven, Vermont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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