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Established in 1996, the park encompasses 34 acres (fourteen hectares) dispersed over thirteen city blocks. It includes a visitor center, the New Bedford National Historic Landmark District, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Seamen's Bethel, the schooner Ernestina, and the Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum.
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 ...
Built by the New Bedford Port Society, it was completed on May 2, 1832.It is a contributing property to the New Bedford Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.. The Seamen's Bethel was specifically constructed for the many sailors who called New Bedford their home port (mostly whalers), who considered it a matter of tradition that one visited the chapel before setting sail.
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park: New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. November 12, 1996 : 33 William St. 28: North Bedford Historic District ...
For 50 years the Descendants of Whaling Masters has preserved the history and tradition of the whaling era. Here's some stories from local descendants. Keeping New Bedford's whaling past alive.
In 1996 it became the only city property outside of the New Bedford Historic District to be included as part of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and in 2005 the house and garden were themselves designated an NHL, as a legacy of New Bedford's whaling supremacy, an outstanding example of a Greek Revival house, and the first house ...
New Bedford whaling was established when prominent Nantucket whaling families moved their operations to the town for economic reasons, and made New Bedford the fourth busiest port in the United States. In Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick [21] the narrator begins his whaling voyage from New Bedford.
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.