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United States historic place New Bedford Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark District View along North Water Street, 2008 Show map of Massachusetts Show map of the United States Location New Bedford, Massachusetts Coordinates 41°38′7″N 70°55′27″W / 41.63528°N 70.92417°W / 41.63528; -70.92417 Area 19.6 acres (7.9 ha ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Date: July 20-21, 2024. Get ready for a weekend of fun and festivities at Harbor Days 2024. On July 20 and July 21, 2024, Mattapoisett's Shipyard Park will be filled with vendors, entertainment ...
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.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that focuses on the history, science, art, and culture of the international whaling industry, and the colonial region of Old Dartmouth (now the city of New Bedford and towns of Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and Westport) in the South Coast of Massachusetts.
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.