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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fairhaven_Bay > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fairhaven_Bay.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairhaven_Bay > Source revision: 1300612183 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Bay in Massachusetts, United States of America Fairhaven Bay **Fairhaven Bay** is a [lake](/source/Lake) located within the [Sudbury river](/source/Sudbury_River) in [Concord, Massachusetts](/source/Concord%2C_Massachusetts), United States (US).[1] It was frequented by [Henry David Thoreau](/source/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.[2] 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".[3] 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](/source/Walden_Pond_State_Reservation).[4] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fairhaven Bay](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/611793) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** CliffsNotes (2000–2012). ["Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau Life and Background of Thoreau"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120908121501/http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/thoreau-emerson-transcendentalism/henry-david-thoreau/life-background-of-thoreau.html). *CliffNotes*. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Archived from [the original](https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/thoreau-emerson-transcendentalism/henry-david-thoreau/life-background-of-thoreau.html) on September 8, 2012. Retrieved August 6, 2012. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Recreation On Concord's Rivers in the 19th Century"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150106114420/http://www.sudbury-assabet-concord.org/theRivers/leslie_wilson.html). Sudbury-assabet-concord.org. Archived from [the original](http://www.sudbury-assabet-concord.org/theRivers/leslie_wilson.html) on January 6, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2012. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["CCLC"](http://www.concordland.org/land.html). Concord Land Conservation Trust. Retrieved November 9, 2017. v t e Lakes and ponds of Massachusetts by drainage system Lakes Connecticut River Watershed Lake Monomonac Lake Wyola Housatonic River Watershed Lake Buel Lake Garfield Lake Onota Merrimack River Watershed Fairhaven Bay Haggetts Pond Lake Attitash Lake Boon Lake Cochichewick Lake Cochituate Lake Saltonstall Lost Lake Walden Pond Providence River Watershed Lake Quinsigamond Taunton River Watershed Assonet Bay Lake Nippenicket Lake Rico Lake Sabbatia Long Pond Pocksha Pond Others Buffumville Lake Charge Pond Chebacco Lake Crystal Lake Follins Pond Hickory Hills Lake Indian Lake Lake Ashmere Lake Chaubunagungamaug Lake Massapoag Lake Quannapowitt Lewis Lake Mystic Lakes Pine Lake Prankers Pond Silver Lake Wallum Lake Wenham Lake Whites Pond Ponds Agawam River Watershed Fawn Pond Glen Charlie Pond Halfway Pond Little Long Pond (Plymouth) Long Pond (Plymouth) Mill Pond (Wareham) Spectacle Pond (Wareham) Connecticut River Watershed Brooks Pond Browning Pond Quaboag Pond Thompson Pond Eel River Watershed Boot Pond Cooks Pond Forge Pond Great South Pond Gunners Exchange Pond Hoyts Pond Island Pond (Plymouth) Russell Millpond Jones River Watershed Crossman Pond Furnace Pond Harrobs Corner Bog Pond Indian Head Pond Lower Chandler Pond Maquan Pond Oldham Pond Pembroke Street South Pond Reeds Millpond Russell Pond Silver Lake Upper Chandler Pond West Chandler Pond Mattapoisett River Watershed Long Pond Snipatuit Pond Merrimack River Watershed Tuxbury Pond Taunton River Watershed Assawompset Pond Great Quittacas Pond Little Quittacas Pond Monponsett Pond Robbins Pond Tispaquin Pond Watson Pond Watuppa Ponds Winnecunnet Pond Wankinco River Watershed East Head Reservoir Parker Mills Pond Tihonet Pond Others Abner Pond Arnold School Pond Barrett Pond Bartlett Pond Bates Pond Beaver Dam Pond Big Rocky Pond Big Sandy Pond Billington Sea Black Jimmy Pond Bloody Pond Bullough's Pond Buckmaster Pond Campus Pond Cedar Pond Clay Pit Pond Cliff Pond College Pond Curlew Pond Deer Pond Dug Pond Dunham Pond Elbow Pond Ezekiel Pond Fairyland Pond Fearing Pond Federal Pond Five Mile Pond Flax Pond (Brewster) Fresh Meadow Pond Fresh Pond Fuller Street Pond Gallows Pond Great Herring Pond Great Island Pond Great Pond Hardy Pond Hedges Pond Higgins Pond Hocomonco Pond Horn Pond Houghton's Pond Indian Pond Island Creek Pond Island Pond (Cedarville) Jacobs Pond Jamaica Pond Keene Pond Kings Pond Lake Lashaway Learned Pond Leonards Pond Little Herring Pond Little Long Pond (Wareham) Little Pond Little Rocky Pond Little Sandy Bottom Pond Little Sandy Pond Little West Pond Long Duck Pond Long Island Pond Lout Pond Mary's Pond Mashpee and Wakeby Ponds Menemsha Pond Micajah Pond Mill Pond (Duxbury) Morey Hole Muddy Pond New Long Pond North Hill Marsh Pond North Triangle Pond Pine Street Pond Ponkapoag Pond Redd's Pond Rocky Pond Round Pond Sampsons Pond Sandy Pond Sargent's Pond Savery Pond Sawins Pond Scargo Lake Shallow Pond Ship Pond Shubael Pond Smelt Pond Smith Pool South Meadow Pond South Triangle Pond Spectacle Pond (Sandwich) Spring Pond Spy Pond Stetson Pond Studleys Pond Tremont Mill Pond Triangle Pond Union Pond Vaughn Pond Walker Pond Wampatuck Pond White Pond White Island Pond [42°25′32″N 71°21′13″W / 42.4255°N 71.3535°W / 42.4255; -71.3535](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Fairhaven_Bay¶ms=42.4255_N_71.3535_W_type:waterbody_region:US-MA) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fairhaven Bay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairhaven_Bay) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairhaven_Bay?action=history)). 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