{{Short description|Bay in Massachusetts, United States of America}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} [[File:Fairhaven Bay.jpeg|thumb|Fairhaven Bay]] '''Fairhaven Bay''' is a [[lake]] located within the [[Sudbury River|Sudbury river]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]], United States (US).<ref>{{GNIS | 611793}}</ref> It was frequented by [[Henry David Thoreau]] who, together with Edward Hoar, accidentally set fire to the woods near the bay in April 1844, as later described in Thoreau's journal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau Life and Background of Thoreau |url=http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/thoreau-emerson-transcendentalism/henry-david-thoreau/life-background-of-thoreau.html |work=CliffNotes |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc |access-date=6 August 2012 |author=CliffsNotes |year=2000–2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908121501/http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/thoreau-emerson-transcendentalism/henry-david-thoreau/life-background-of-thoreau.html |archive-date=8 September 2012 }}</ref>
In 1895, George Bradford Bartlett, ”well-known in connection with the Manse boathouse”, wrote of the cliffs near Fairhaven Bay on the Sudbury River: "For more than a hundred years these cliffs have been a favorite resort for the nature lover, and the climax of many a Sunday walk or autumnal holiday trip, as no better view can be had of the waving tree-tops and gentle river".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sudbury-assabet-concord.org/theRivers/leslie_wilson.html |title=Recreation On Concord's Rivers in the 19th Century|publisher=Sudbury-assabet-concord.org |access-date=2012-07-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106114420/http://www.sudbury-assabet-concord.org/theRivers/leslie_wilson.html| archive-date=2015-01-06}}</ref>
To the North, the Bay is bordered by Wright Woods, owned by the Concord Land Conservation Trust. The woods, where Thoreau often walked, link the Fairhaven Bay trails and the Lincoln Conservation land with the [[Walden Pond State Reservation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.concordland.org/land.html |title=CCLC|publisher=Concord Land Conservation Trust |access-date=2017-11-09}}</ref>
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{{Massachusetts lakes and ponds}} {{Coord|42.4255|N|71.3535|W|type:waterbody_region:US-MA|display=title}}
[[Category:Bays of Massachusetts]] [[Category:Concord, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Henry David Thoreau]] [[Category:Bodies of water of Middlesex County, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Protected areas of Middlesex County, Massachusetts]]