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Do you know of Fair Haven ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fair Haven. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fair Haven. Our sources for Fair Haven (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fair Haven other than they indicate that Fair Haven would be found somewhere in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others. Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices. Communities Also Named Fair Haven ...We found thirteen communities that share the name Fair Haven. Within Pennsylvania, the name Fair Haven is unique. Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fair Haven ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fair Haven: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fair Haven - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Fair Haven. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 42/24624 (Place Name: Fair Haven) County: Allegheny (FIPS State/County: 42/003) Class: U4 Identifies a populated place (ie- Fair Haven) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place. More Orphans in Allegheny County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Allegheny County. Footnotes ...
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