Fair Haven is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.

[3] Fair Haven was chartered on October 27, 1779, to Ebenezer Allen and 76 associates, and first settled the same year.

The township originally included West Haven, which was set off on October 20, 1792.

[4] In 1783, Colonel Matthew Lyon moved to Fair Haven and began building mills at the falls on the Castleton River.

His enterprises included a gristmill, sawmill and papermill, in addition to a forge, as well as a newspaper, the Fair Haven Gazette.

Fair Haven would develop extensive quarries for the stone, believed at the time to be inexhaustible, which was supplied to cities along the Atlantic coast and in the West.

[5] On April 7, 1880, a very small area of Fair Haven was transferred to New York due to a change in the course in the Poultney River.

In an eighteen-candidate ballot on March 3, 2020, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Murfee was elected as mayor to a one-year term.