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New Bedford, Massachusetts "New Bedford" New Bedford . New Bedford New Bedford Harbor New Bedford Harbor Official seal of New Bedford New Bedford is positioned in the US New Bedford - New Bedford New Bedford is a town/city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 95,072, making it the sixth-largest town/city in Massachusetts. New Bedford is nicknamed "The Whaling City" because amid the 19th century, the town/city was one of the most important, if not the most important, whaling ports in the world, along with Nantucket, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut. The city, along with Fall River and Taunton, make up the three biggest cities in the South Coast region of Massachusetts. The Greater Providence-Fall River-New Bedford region is home to the biggest Portuguese-American improve in the United States. 1.2 Immigration to New Bedford See also: Timeline of New Bedford, Massachusetts While seeking New England, Bartholomew Gosnold landed on Cuttyhunk Island on May 15, 1602. From there, he explored Cape Cod and the neighboring areas, including the site of present-day New Bedford. Europeans first settled New Bedford in 1652. The pioneer used the territory to build the colonial town of Old Dartmouth (which encompassed not only present-day Dartmouth, but also present-day New Bedford, Acushnet, Fairhaven, and Westport). A section of Old Dartmouth near the west bank of the Acushnet River, originally called Bedford Village, was officially incorporated as the town of New Bedford in 1787 after the American Revolutionary War. (Bedford, Massachusetts had already been incorporated by 1787; hence "New" Bedford.) New Bedford's first newspaper, The Medley (also known as New Bedford Marine Journal), was established in 1792. On June 12, 1792, the town set up its first postal service. The assembly of a bridge (originally a toll bridge) between New Bedford and present-day Fairhaven in 1796 also spurred growth. (Fairhaven separated from New Bedford in 1812, forming an autonomous town that encompassed both present-day Fairhaven and present-day Acushnet.) In 1847 the town of New Bedford officially became a city; Abraham Hathaway Howland was propel its first mayor. At approximately the same time, New Bedford began to supplant Nantucket as the nation's preeminent whaling port, thanks to its deeper harbor and locale on the mainland. Until 1800, New Bedford and its encircling communities were, by and large, populated by Protestants of English, Scottish, and Welsh origin. Later in that century, immigrants from Portugal and its dependent territories of the Azores, Cape Verde, and Madeira began arriving in New Bedford and the encircling area, thriving by jobs in the whaling industry; many had family members who had worked on whaling ships. French Canadians also secured a foothold in New Bedford at about the same time, and they assembled the Church of the Sacred Heart in 1877. During the years dominant up to the First World War, a sizeable eastern-European Jewish improve joined them in New Bedford. New Bedford and its textile trade garnered nationwide headlines in 1928 when it was hit with a strike of 30,000 workers. The walkout of mostly immigrant workers was given critical support by the Workers (Communist) Party and was the precursor of a more theme textile strike in North Carolina held the following year. See also: list of mills in New Bedford, Massachusetts In 1847, the New Bedford Horticultural Society was begun by James Arnold. The Ash Street Jail, which homes inmates from Bristol County, is positioned in New Bedford. New Bedford is positioned at 41 39 06 N 70 56 01 W (41.651803, -70.933705). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 24.1 square miles (62.5 km2). Of the total area, 20.0 square miles (51.8 km2) is land, and 4.1 square miles (10.7 km2), or 17.13%, is water. New Bedford is a coastal city, a seaport, bordered on the west by Dartmouth, on the north by Freetown, on the east by Acushnet and Fairhaven, and on the south by Buzzards Bay. From New Bedford's northern border with Freetown to the Buzzards Bay coast at Clark's Point the distance is approximately 14 miles (23 km). Across New Bedford east to west is a distance of about 2 miles (3.2 km). New Bedford Harbor, a body of water shared with Fairhaven, is actually the estuary of the Acushnet River where it empties into Buzzards Bay. Between these two islands lies one of the three sections, the central section, of the New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge. Two conventional bridges connect each of the islands to the nearest mainland, Fish Island to New Bedford and Pope's Island to Fairhaven. In an accomplishment to remove himself from the bustle of the city's center, the prominent New Bedford Quaker, Daniel Ricketson assembled a nation estate in what is now Brooklawn Park. The brand new basketball courts are a primary attraction. New Bedford has a cooler than normal version of a humid subtropical climate that in many aspects resembles a humid continental one, but with slightly milder winters. Climate data for New Bedford New Bedford has had thirty unsolved homicides since 2000. On March 6, 1983 Cheryl Ann Araujo, 21, was gang-raped by four men on a pool table in Big Dan's tavern in New Bedford while other patrons watched, but did not intervene. The case also raised tensions between the Portuguese-American improve and other ethnic groups in New Bedford, as the defendants were Portuguese immigrants. On December 8, 2001, New Bedford was the site of the biggest cocaine drug arrest in Massachusetts history, yielding a total of 260 kilograms. Robida attacked and seriously wounded three patrons of Puzzles Lounge, a New Bedford gay bar. He fled to Arkansas where he murdered a female companion and a police officer and later died from wounds (seemingly self-inflicted) received in a shootout. New Bedford was featured on America's Most Wanted on February 11, 2006, for three unsolved murders: that of Marcus Cruz in 2001, Cecil Lopes III in 2004, and Dana Haywood in 2005, run as part of a report on the Stop Snitching phenomenon that has hindered police investigations nationwide. "Americas Most Wanted" senior correspondent Tom Morris, who spoke with sources in New Bedford for the piece, said he usually cannot discuss the number or content of calls in response to a particular segment. The Port of New Bedford serves as a break-bulk handler of perishable items, including fruit and fish; the port also handles other cargo. At least two private ferry services originate at New Bedford. As of 2010, Seastreak offers fast catamaran ferry service between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard, New Bedford and Nantucket; and the Cuttyhunk Ferry Company runs scheduled ferry services to Cuttyhunk Island. Ferry service from New Bedford dates back to May 15, 1818, when the steamboat The Eagle carried 600 passengers athwart the Nantucket Sound. New Bedford Regional Airport (EWB), a towered Class D airport offering two 5,000-foot (1,500 m) runways and a precision instrument landing system, is positioned in the central portion of the town/city with easy access to highways. Charter services, including seaplane charters, are available for destinations throughout the southern New England / New York region. Interstate 195 is the chief freeway through central New Bedford, traveling from Providence, RI to Wareham. US 6 leaves the town/city toward Cape Cod over the New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge, a swing truss bridge, and the Popes Island Bridge. New Bedford also serves as the southern end of MA Route 140, which is a freeway that joins to MA Route 24 in Taunton on the road north to Boston. Peter Pan Bus Lines makes a New Bedford stop on a New York City to Hyannis (Cape Cod) route. Also, Megabus offers service to Providence and New York City from New Bedford. The MBTA has proposed renewing commuter rail service to the city. As of May 14, 2006, total capital costs for commuter rail service to New Bedford were projected to be $800 million, and the universal has not yet been funded by the state; which is still reeling financially from the financial excesses of the Big Dig universal in Boston. CSX Transportation (formerly Conrail) provides freight rail service to New Bedford, terminating at the New Bedford Rail Yard in the port area. Until 1959, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad provided train service to New Bedford from Boston and Providence via Taunton. On March 15, 2017, Mass - DOT filed a notice of universal change in order to advance South Coast Rail service serving both New Bedford and Fall River using the existing Middleborough/Lakeville Commuter Rail Line. New Bedford City Hall New Bedford is governed by a Mayor-Council form of government. The New Bedford Police Department patrols the town/city from four stations. There are four postal services, the Central (a scaled replica of New York's Penn Station Post Office) positioned downtown, one in the South End, and two in the North End. The town/city also formerly directed a trash dump in the Mount Pleasant region of town between the county-wide airport and the Whaling City Golf Course. The Bristol County Sheriff's Office operates the Ash Street Jail and Regional Lock-Up and the Juvenile Secure Alternative Lock Up Program (JALP) in New Bedford. New Bedford is represented by four state representatives, representing the Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth districts. The Ninth includes Dartmouth, as well as parts of Freetown and Lakeville; the Thirteenth includes parts of Freetown, Lakeville and Middleborough; and the Eleventh and Twelfth are both entirely inside New Bedford. The Third Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police, positioned nearby in Dartmouth, patrol New Bedford. The town/city of New Bedford is presently protected 24/7, 365 by the town/city of New Bedford Fire Department(NBFD). Established in 1834, the New Bedford Fire Department presently operates out of seven Fire Stations, positioned throughout the town/city in two Districts, under the command of two District Chiefs per shift. The New Bedford Fire Department presently maintains and operates a fire apparatus fleet of seven Engines, three Ladders, two Fireboats, one Air Supply Unit, one Foam Trailer, and one ARFF Crash Rescue Unit based at New Bedford Regional Airport and 4 reserve apparatus (3 engines, 1 ladder). The New Bedford Fire Department responds to approximately 14,000 emergency calls annually. In 2015, the New Bedford Fire Department received the "Class 1" ISO (Insurance Service Office) distinct ion becoming just the 3rd town/city in the state, Boston and Cambridge being the other two, to receive such a rating. New Bedford has been known to be a very aggressive interior attack department when responding to fire emergencies, and has been considered to be among the best in the state. Below is a complete listing of all fire station and fire apparatus locations. In addition to the seven Fire Stations, the NBFD also operates a fire apparatus maintenance facility/repair shop at 311 Liberty St., an Emergency Management facility at 834 Kempton St., and a Fire Museum at 51 Bedford St. New Bedford Public Schools is the improve school district. New Bedford High School Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School New Bedford is also the home to Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School, a large vocational high school serving the town/city New Bedford, and also the suburbs of Dartmouth and Fairhaven. The town/city operates two alternative junior-senior high schools, Whaling City Alternative School, out of the initial Greater New Bedford Vocational High School building, and Trinity Day Academy. New Bedford is home to one of Fisher College's neighborhood campuses. Located on Church Street in the north end of the city, it serves adult learners from the greater New Bedford region and the encircling communities of Taunton, Wareham, and Fall River. Bristol Community College has a satellite ground in Downtown New Bedford in the Star Store Building and 800 Purchase Street. Nearby Dartmouth is home to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, as well as the University of Massachusetts School of Law - Dartmouth, the first enhance law school in the state. Both schools were always small in registrations but were considered by many to be influential in New Bedford's 20th century culture. New Bedford and encircling communities are a part of the Providence urbane area. View of historic New Bedford harbor The economy of the Pilgrim settlement in the New Bedford region was initially based around a several farming and fishing villages. The early Bedford Village quickly became a commercial zone and from there became a primary whaling and foreign trade port. Age of Sail ships assembled in New Bedford include the schooner Caroline and whaleship Charles W. Rotch moved his company to New Bedford since it would be better for refining whale petroleum and manufacturing candles made from whales. The relationship between New Bedford and Nantucket allowed the two metros/cities to dominate the whaling industry. In 1848 New Bedford resident Lewis Temple invented the toggling harpoon, an invention that would revolutionize the whaling industry. This helped make New Bedford the preeminent town/city in the U.S. Syren, the longest lived of the clipper ships, spent over a decade transporting whale petroleum and whaling products to New Bedford, principally from Honolulu, and was owned for a several years by William H. Besse of New Bedford. As a result of its control over whaling products that were used widely throughout the world (most importantly whale oil), New Bedford became one of the richest per capita metros/cities in the world. Many whalers would quit their jobs in 1849, though, as the Gold Rush thriving many of them to leave New Bedford for California. During this time Herman Melville, who worked in New Bedford as a whaler, wrote the novel Moby-Dick and presented it in 1851; the town/city would be the initial setting of the book, including a scene set in the Seaman's Bethel, which still stands today. Even with the power it gave to New Bedford, the whaling trade began to diminish starting in 1859 when petroleum, which would turn into a prominent alternative to whale oil, was identified. Another blow came with the Whaling Disaster of 1871, in which twenty-two New Bedford whalers were lost in the ice off the coast of Alaska. The New Bedford firm J. Wing Company, the biggest whaling business in the United States, sent out its last whaleship in 1914, and whaling in New Bedford came to its final end in 1925, with the last whaling expedition being made by the schooner John R. In the mid-1840s, New Bedford was the site of the first oil fuel refinery in the United States, as newly identified Pennsylvania crude petroleum was shipped to New Bedford to be refined for lamp petroleum and other oil. New Bedford was able to remain wealthy because of its textile industry. The creation of the New Bedford Textile School in 1895 1899 ushered in an era of textile prosperity that began to diminish in the great depression and ended with the end of the textile reconstructionin the 1940s. At its height, though, over 30,000 citizens were working by the 32 cotton-manufacturing companies that owned the textile factories of New Bedford (which were worth $100 million in total). Until the mid-1990s New Bedford was home to a grow commercial fishing improve that fished Georges Bank, but in 1996 action was taken to reduce over-fishing, which devastated commercial fishing in the area. View of ships docked at New Bedford The three biggest single employers based in New Bedford are Southcoast Hospitals Group, one of the top ten employers in Massachusetts (healthcare), Titleist (golf clubs, balls, apparel, manufacturing), and Riverside Manufacturing (apparel manufacturing). New Bedford tourism centers on fairs and celebrations including the Summerfest Folk Music and Arts Festival, the traditional Blessing of the Fleet, and the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament (the biggest Portuguese cultural celebration in the nation). Tourism also focuses on the historic whaling industry, and the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park is the only nationwide park unit that focuses on the whaling industry's impact on the history of the United States. Driven in part by increased tourism, a Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel opened in New Bedford in late May 2010, on the edge of the city's harbor. According to a 2001 study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis, the three biggest employment sectors in the Greater New Bedford region (the region includes New Bedford and Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Lakeville, Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester, and Wareham) were as follows: services (26% of total employment); wholesale trade (22%); manufacturing (19%). Three companies, Offshore - MW, Deepwater Wind, and DONG Energy, have leased portions of New Bedford's Marine Commerce Terminal for the staging of turbines and platforms. Even with the historical diminish of fishing and whaling in New England, New Bedford continues to be a dominant fishing port. In 2011, New Bedford was the highest-valued port in the nation, a title it has held for twelve straight years. While volume is below other primary ports, New Bedford retains is top position due largely to its scallop fishery. New Bedford Public Library, 1899 New Bedford $21,056 $35,999 $44,607 94,927 39,068 The New Bedford enhance library was established in 1852. In fiscal year 2008, the town/city of New Bedford spent 0.82% ($1,841,038) of its budget on its enhance library some $20 per person. Main article: Media in Providence and New Bedford New Bedford is part of the Providence TV market but is the town/city of license for two TV stations. The town/city is also home to a several airways broadcasts the most notable of which are WJFD at 97.3 FM, WBSM at 1420 AM and WNBH at 1340 AM, all of which have been serving the inhabitants of New Bedford for many decades. The town/city is also served by the newspaper, New Bedford Standard-Times. New Bedford has had a sporadic history of prosperous musicians. During the 1970s, the Tavares, a soul music group made up of five brothers from New Bedford, became a chart topping success with such music as "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" and "More Than a Woman". In 1999, the pop group LFO (Lyte Funky Ones), whose group member Harold "Devin" Lima is from New Bedford, had a hit single with their song "Summer Girls". Have Heart, a Straight-edge hardcore band, were formed in New Bedford in 2002, before breaking up in 2009. New Bedford natives Hector Barros and Scott Ross were members of the hip-hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, led by actor Mark Wahlberg. Josh Newton from the band Every Time I Die was born in New Bedford. In 2002, the movie Passionada was filmed in New Bedford, making it the first film to be shot in the town/city in 45 years. Previously, film director John Huston shot a scene for the movie adaptation of Moby-Dick in front of Seamen's Bethel in 1956. However, all other exterior shots for New Bedford in the film were shot in Youghal instead. The 2011 movie Whaling City, about the fight of an autonomous fisherman to save his boat and his way of life, is set in New Bedford and was filmed there. New Bedford was the town where 100 brides in the 1968 70 TV series Here Come the Brides came from before to their arrival in 1860s Seattle, Washington. A character titled New Bedford appeared on a Family Guy episode (in 2006) as a friend of another girl titled Dakota. The fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island is "situated" near New Bedford. Family Guy episode "Lottery Fever" Peter mentions New Bedford while looking at a whale painting Quinn Sullivan (born March 26, 1999) is a blues guitarist from New Bedford. King and has played in venues such as the Beacon Theatre in New York City, the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC's The Today Show, Lollapalooza and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The accordionist and accordion instructor Aldo De - Rossi (1917 2010) composed the Whaling City Concerto in 1992, honoring New Bedford. Since 2009, the town/city has been home to the New Bedford Bay Sox baseball charter of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, a collegiate summer baseball league operating in New England. The team, which reached the league playoffs in their inaugural season, plays home games at Paul Walsh Field in New Bedford. Since 2005 the New England Football League semi-pro team, The Whaling City Clippers, have played at Walsh Field. New Bedford is the home of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the centerpiece of the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. All whales died in New England waters and were cleaned and assembled for display. It was restored by the Waterfront Historic Area Leagu - E (WHALE) in the early 1980s and converted into the home exhibition it is today, chronicling 150 years of economic, social, and domestic life in New Bedford. Tours of the home and grounds are available; the facilities can also be rented for private affairs. The New Bedford Art Museum/Art - Works! is positioned in the heart of New Bedford's historic downtown. The New Bedford Fire Museum is homed in a handsome red-brick building, formerly Fire Station No. The New Bedford Museum of Glass reflects the city's history as home of the Mount Washington and Pairpoint Glass companies. The exhibition's compilation ranges from ancient to intact glass with a large focus on the glass of New England. New Bedford has nine historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places. Central New Bedford Historic District New Bedford Historic District North New Bedford Historic District Many of his ships sailed out of New Bedford. There is a monument to Temple in downtown New Bedford. In 1838, Frederick Douglass, the runaway slave who became a famous abolitionist, settled in New Bedford. He writes in detail about the life and times of New Bedford in the late 1840s in his jubilated Autobiography. A historic building and monument dedicated to Douglass can be found today at the Nathan and Polly Johnson properties. Frederick Douglass was not the only fugitive slave or freedman to see New Bedford as a welcoming place to settle. New Bedford had a small but grow black improve amid the antebellum period. There is an elementary school in New Bedford titled in his honor. Patrick Cunningham was an Irish immigrant who lived in New Bedford. Bishop "Sweet Daddy" Grace, native of Brava, Cape Verde, was a New Bedford resident who established the United House of Prayer for All People, one of the biggest black sects in America. He is buried in New Bedford. Nelson Eddy, singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films amid the 1930s and 1940s, spent part of his boyhood in New Bedford. Paul Poirier, former New England heavyweight boxing champion; fought former world champion Larry Holmes in 1993. Harry Stovey, 19th-century experienced baseball player; born in Philadelphia, he became a police officer in New Bedford after his playing days. The port of New Bedford New Bedford is a sister town/city of these municipalities: List of mills in New Bedford, Massachusetts a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): New Bedford city, Massachusetts". New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications, 1993. "New Bedford's Ash Street Jail", South Coast Today blog, 5 October 2011 Geological Survey New Bedford North, MA 7.5-minute quadrangle, 1979. "Parks in New Bedford" (PDF). "New Bedford Harbor Walk | Buzzards Bay Coalition". "New Bedford, Massachusetts Climate Summary". "New Bedford, Massachusetts Temperature Averages". "Police Identify Suspect in New Bedford Bar Attack", Boston.com, 2 February 2006 "High conviction rate has officials touting New Bedford gang roundups". 2006 Cruise Season Update The Port of New Bedford/ Harbor Development Commission. 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