Plat of Fairhaven

Plat of Fairhaven

1883

1883

This original plat of Fairhaven was filed for record on January 2, 1883 by Daniel J. Harris, the "Dirty Dan' of local lore and legend. No surveyor is named, so presumably Harris was his own surveyor. Although sites for a shipyard and a mill were designated, not a great deal happened around Harris Bay until 1888 when Nelson Bennett arrived and talks began that led eventually to the purchase of the property by Bennett and the setting up of the Fairhaven Land Company. The doubtful promise by James J. Hill of a transcontinental terminus for the Great Northern Railroad brought realtors and entrepreneurs scampering to Fairhaven from all parts of the country, including Boston, New York and San Francisco, and Fairhaven briefly boomed. Harris's original plat was later modified, but the proposed arrangement of numbered north-south streets has remained, and of the east-west streets only Columbia is not there today. McKenzie Avenue was singled out for special treatment by Harris, rather than Harris Street (Avenue), which today is the more important thoroughfare

although all other streets were designed to be 80 feet in width, McKenzie was to be 100 feet.

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