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New Bedford 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. At the 2020 census, New Bedford had a population of 101,079, making it the state's ninth-largest city and the largest of the South Coast region. [3]
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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
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.
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.
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.
The station is located west of Church Street approximately 1 ⁄ 3 mile (0.5 km) south of Tarkiln Hill Road in northern New Bedford, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of downtown New Bedford and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Acushnet Center.
The Acushnet Heights Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district in central New Bedford, Massachusetts.It encompasses a densely-built urban area about 20 acres (8.1 ha) in size, which was developed as a working-class area, beginning in the 1860s, for the many workers in the city's factories.