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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.
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.
1901 - Hotel Waverly built. 1903 Old Dartmouth Historical Society founded. [2]New Bedford Whaling Museum established.; Insect invasion. [17]1905 - Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish established.
Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School (commonly referred to as GNB Voc-Tech, Voc-Tech, or Voc) is a vocational high school located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States for students in grades 9–12.
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.
The Port of New Bedford is a deepwater port located at at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzards Bay, with access to the Atlantic Ocean.It is in the harbor estuary on the southern coast of Massachusetts in New Bedford, Fairhaven and Acushnet.
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.
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.