Ask Mr. History Person

  Dear Mr. History Person, [Recently] on the radio, people were talking about the old Coggeshall Street Bridge that was replaced in the earl...

OK, Mr. History Person, Since now I know who the different Howlands were [from the Navigator’s “Encyclopedia Fairhaven”], which one is Howla...

Dear Mr. History Person, Is there really a tunnel that runs from Fort Phoenix under the harbor? If so, when was it built and why? —T.L.P., A...

Dear Mr. History Person, On Union Street near the Fairhaven Post Office I saw a house with a plaque that reads, “Julia A. Sears, built 1911....

Dear Mr. History Person, U.S. Route 6 was in existence in the 1920s before Huttleston was extended east of Adams Street. Did the highway r...