Fair Haven was located in the NE quarter of Sec 1, Township 3 South Range 21 West - see the map at http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/graphics/maps/norton.jpg Fair Haven (or Fairhaven) post office was established 30 July 1879 with Judson C. Wilson as the first postmaster. The post office was discontinued 29 Feb. 1904 and mail was sent to the Densmore office. Fairhaven consisted of a general store, post office, blacksmith shop, and cream and egg station, telephone switchboard, ice house, wagon scales and gasoline pump during its lifetime. The general store was operated by James Alderson Maddy and his family. James A. Maddy and wife Mary Catherine "Mollie" Bright Maddy, homesteaded 11 miles south of Almena in Sec 3, Twp 3 South, Range 21 West. About 1900 they moved about 1/2 mile east to a new home on the Densmore-Almena road. An addition to this new home became the general store in 1903. When J. A. Maddy died in 1935, his widow sold out and left the Fairhaven community. The Fairhaven blacksmiths were George Delana and Dave Saltzman. The Fair Haven Church of God was established about 1917. It was located about a half mile north of the store. The land was deeded on 17 Nov. 1917 by Charles O. Bailey to the trustees: J. W. Stewart, Jr., T. Neal, P. A. Harper, J. D. Wright and Sarah E. Glenn. After church gatherings, people assembled at the store to pick up a few groceries or catch up on on the neighborhood news. Many Sunday afternoon ball games were played on the field just north of the store, against teams from the Cactus Community, Prairie View and others. Other families in the immediate area of Fairhaven from a 1900 plat map include: J. C. Wilson, Aug. Zellmer, Leonard Bogart, E. C. Campbell, Frederick, William, August & Herman Roeder, John Birkholz, R. D. Irwin, C. W. Zellmer, W. T. McGlasson, J. E. Palmer, Chas. Suhr, L. S. Schesser, Y. H. Tromp, Geo. Eli, Harmon Kroes?, Martin Vander?, but the store apparently drew patronage from many miles around. This information was gleaned from "Seventy Years in Norton County" by D. N. Bowers, "Treasure the Memories: Almena Centennial 1893-1993" and an article from the Almena Plaindealer written by Leola Maddy Luft (June 1982)