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New Bedford's first newspaper, The Medley (also known as the New Bedford Marine Journal), was founded in 1792. [17] On June 12, 1792, the town set up its first post office. William Tobey was its first postmaster. The construction of a bridge (originally a toll bridge) between New Bedford and present-day Fairhaven in 1796 also spurred growth.
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
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The "South Coast" label was born as a public relations effort to counteract the perceived stigma of former terms like "Greater Fall River," "Greater New Bedford," or "New Bedford-Fall River," which conjured images, in many Massachusetts residents' minds, of depressed mill towns with run-down buildings and high unemployment.
With new batteries being constructed under the Endicott program in 1898, the U.S. Army officially named the military reservation at the site and the fort as Fort Rodman Military Reservation, in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Logan Rodman, a New Bedford native with the 38th Massachusetts Infantry who died in the assault on Port Hudson, Louisiana in ...
The Howland Mill Village Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Bolton, Winsper, Hemlock Sts., and Rockdale Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts.It consists of a collection of single-family mill worker housing units constructed in 1888-89 for workers at the nearby Howland Mill, and several double-decker houses built in the 1920s.
Buttonwood Park is a roughly L-shaped public park located west of downtown New Bedford. The northernmost section of the park is wooded, and is separated from the rest of the park by a 7-acre (2.8 ha) pond. The southern edge of the pond is dammed, and a road, part of the park's circulation, passes east–west across the dam.
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 ...