Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Fair Haven, NY

Fair Haven is a village in the town of Sterling in Cayuga County, on Little Sodus Bay, an arm of Lake Ontario on the lake's southern shore, northwest of Syracuse.

Fair Haven had a population of 760 at the 2020 census, in line with 745 in 2010; back in 2000 it had 884 people in 395 households.

The first settlement on the village site was made in 1805, on land that had been part of the Central New York Military Tract set aside for Revolutionary War veterans, and the village was incorporated in 1880.

Fair Haven first gained prominence as a Lake Ontario port: in the mid-19th century the openings in Little Sodus Bay's sand bars were widened and protected by jetties, and the west pier got a lighthouse whose 1873 light keeper's house still stands.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad hauled Pennsylvania coal to a trestle at North Fair Haven, where it was loaded onto sail freighters bound for Canada — as much as 170,000 tons of coal were shipped from Fair Haven in a single season.

Summer tourists once arrived by rail from Auburn and other inland towns because Fair Haven's waterfront parks were known for having the very best sand beaches on Lake Ontario.

When the port declined and the coal trestle was torn down in 1937, Fair Haven reinvented itself as a resort village anchored by Fair Haven Beach State Park, which sits on Lake Ontario at the village's northern edge and drew about 540,000 visitors in 2017.

Nearly 40 percent of the village's 2.9 square miles is water, almost all of it Little Sodus Bay.

Cottage Farm, a historic property in the village, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

New York State Route 104A passes through the village, and the Sterling Nature Center's shoreline parkland lies just west of it.