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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. It is the largest city in the region and second largest city in the Providence-Warwick-New Bedford Metropolitan Region which is a part of the combined Boston, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area.
Term Name Picture Party Notes; 1st: 1847–1851: Abraham H. Howland: 2nd: 1852: William J. Rotch: 3rd: 1853–1854: Rodney French: 4th: 1855–1856: George Howland Jr ...
Mitchell was born in New Bedford, the son of two public school teachers. He was raised in New Bedford and North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. [6] He graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a degree in economics and received a Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. [7]
The Standard-Times (and Sunday Standard-Times), based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is the largest of three daily newspapers covering the South Coast of Massachusetts, [2] along with The Herald News of Fall River and Taunton Daily Gazette of Taunton, Massachusetts.
In 1789, New Bedford was chosen to be the administrative center of the Tenth U.S. Customs District.Colonel Edward Pope was chosen to be the district's first collector. By 1825, New Bedford had surpassed Nantucket as the world capital of the whaling industry, a distinction it would hold for much of the nineteenth century.
1800 - Population: 4,361. [6]1803 - Social Library organized. [7]1804 - 59 whaling vessels were registered from New Bedford. [2]1807 - New-Bedford Mercury newspaper begins publication.
The New Bedford and Taunton Railroad was originally incorporated at the Old Colony Railroad Corporation in 1836 as an extension of the Taunton Branch Railroad between Taunton and New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
New Bedford Regional Airport (IATA: EWB, ICAO: KEWB, FAA LID: EWB) is a Part 139 Commercial-Service Airport, municipally-owned and available for public use.The airport is located three nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northwest of the city center belonging to the City of New Bedford, a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.