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The Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery are a pair of connected cemeteries at 149 Dartmouth Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts United States. They occupy an irregular parcel of land more than 90 acres (36 ha) in size on the west side of the city.
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The older portion of the cemetery, that south of Parker Street, was established in 1843, while the northern section was acquired and developed between 1870 and 1896. Most of the cemetery is laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style of winding lanes, although the northernmost section has a more open layout, made partly due to ...
January 3, 1985 (Steamship Wharf: 10: Fire Station No. 4: Fire Station No. 4: July 24, 1975 (79 S. 6th St. 1867 building was oldest fire station in state when closed; now home of New Bedford Fire Museum
New Bedford's official Christmas tree is 30 feet tall, weighs 350 pounds and comes from Donny Drive. The Lighting Ceremony is Saturday, Dec. 7.
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The plot of the cemetery is about 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) in size, and roughly follows the rectilinear grid of the city streets. It was established in 1804, not far from a Quaker cemetery whose remains were later reinterred in the city's Rural Cemetery. The cemetery has about 230 grave stones, but a significant number of graves are unmarked.