Fairhaven Bay

Fairhaven Bay

Fairhaven Bay is a bay located within the Sudbury river in Concord, Massachusetts, United States (US).[1] It was frequented by David Henry 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]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fairhaven Bay
  2. ↑ CliffsNotes (2000–2012). "Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism: Henry David Thoreau Life and Background of Thoreau". CliffNotes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "Recreation On Concord's Rivers in the 19th Century". Sudbury-assabet-concord.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2012-07-25.

Coordinates: 42°25′32″N 71°21′13″W / 42.4255°N 71.3535°W / 42.4255; -71.3535

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