Looking Back at North Fair Haven, New York is now available and makes a great gift. More then 600 photographs depicting Fair Haven from the beginning of its railroad era and tall ships until the rails were pulled up. Buy it today.     View the index to this book.

Looking Back at Fair Haven and Little Sodus Bay features historic photographs along the bay shore of Little Sodus Bay. Makes a great gift. More then 400 photographs! Buy it today.

In 1873 Reverend George Lansing Taylor reminisced about his childhood in the 1840s on Chrysler Bluff.

Then and Now photos the bridge over Sterling Creek on Old State Road just west of Center Road. Edna Williams took the first photo in 1913 from the northeast corner of the bridge, looking southwest.

John Henry Northrup, known to many as "Zip," was the grandson of Solomon Northup, author of book 12 Years A Slave. Zip was well known in Fair Haven as a player and coach for the Fair Haven Baseball Team in the days before there was a "color barrier."

When was this aerial view of Fair Haven contributed by Ted Stojkovski taken? What buildings in the photo do you recognize. Missing in this photo are the stores destroyed in the 1955 fire.

Just before midnight on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, 1955 Harold Wallace smelled smoke. He and his family were living above the store he owned on Main Street at the corner of Fancher Avenue. Today this is the location of new store he built after the fire.

Current events seem to bring history closer to home, as does walking through one month in Fair Haven during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. My grandfather’s first cousin, Libby Hills, grew up in North Fair Haven. She died from influenza at age 24, leaving her husband with two small children to raise. In the fall of 1918 the schools and the movie theatre in Fair Haven were closed. Church services were suspended.

What do you know about the Suffrage Movement in Fair Haven. Here are some photos and articles that have been found so far. How do you think the women of Fair Haven felt about their right to vote?

Elizabeth Frost and Don Hadcock were married at the Fair Haven Community church on June 15, 1946. Don Rasbeck captured the event on film.

Good friends Carlton Brown, Roy Maynard, Leon Griggs, Walter Phillips, Ray Sant, and Lawrence Turner were all master-storytellers. During the summer of 1956 they used their well greased imaginations to create the Loyal Order of Liars and Loafers along with its specific rules of order.

A photo gallery for sharing photos and videos in and around Fair Haven.

Big Bo's, Inc. was incorporate on February 19, 1973 in Oswego.

Many people are interested in preserving Fair Haven's history which includes many eras and many topics. This website is a place to share projects relating to the people, places and events that have made Fair Haven the unique place it is.

William L. Blaisdell of Martville, the last surviving veteran of the Civil War from Cayuga County died at his home on February 13, 1941 after a five week illness. Comrade Blaisdell was 94 years of age.