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New Bedford Historic District. / 41.63528°N 70.92417°W / 41.63528; -70.92417. The New Bedford Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, west of the community's waterfront. During the 19th century, when the city was the center of the American whaling industry, this was its ...
New Bedford, Massachusetts. / 41.63611°N 70.93472°W / 41.63611; -70.93472. New Bedford ( Massachusett: Accushnet) [ 3] is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast region. Up through the 17th century, the area was the territory of the Wampanoag ...
List of Registered Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts . / 41.647778°N 70.931389°W / 41.647778; -70.931389 ( Acushnet Heights Historic District) / 41.601944°N 70.898333°W / 41.601944; -70.898333 ( Butler Flats Light) / 41.631944°N 70.951944°W / 41.631944; -70.951944 ( Buttonwood Park Historic ...
Added to NRHP. August 24, 2000. Buttonwood Park Historic District is a historic district on Kempton Street, Rockdale Avenue, Hawthorne Street and Brownell Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its focal point is Buttonwood Park, a 97-acre (39 ha) municipal park planned by Charles Eliot in the 1890s, and part of its surrounding neighborhood.
August 11, 1976. The William Rotch Jr. House, now the Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum, is a National Historic Landmark at 396 County Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the United States. The three families whose names are attached to it were all closely tied to the city's nineteenth-century dominance of the whaling industry.
1996. New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS). The park commemorates the heritage of the world's preeminent whaling port during the nineteenth century. Established in 1996, the park encompasses 34 acres (fourteen ...
1976 - New Bedford Fire Museum opens. 1977 - Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School established. 1985 - A labor strike breaks out between fishermen and a trade association of shipowners. 1987 - Sister city relationship established with Tosashimizu, Japan.
While many maps include all three spans as one "New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge", only the middle span between the two is the actual bridge. This span, which was built between 1897 and 1899, is the one which includes the 283.2-foot-long (86.3 m) swing truss across the main channel into the northern half of the harbor.