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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MKD_whalings-final-days_New-Bedford-MA.html
During the war, we were getting a dollar and a half a gallon for sperm oil. And then around 1922 there was no more demand for sperm oil....The price of sending a ship to sea doubled and the price of oil dropped about 200 percent....And then we los…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MJI_from-whales-to-bales_New-Bedford-MA.html
A one-industry whaling town before the Civil War, New Bedford became a one-industry textile town afterward. Cotton bales and coal, both bound for the city's new textile mills, began to replace oil casks on New Bedford wharves.
Oil casks covered…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MJD_merrills-wharf_New-Bedford-MA.html
On the other side of the Bourne Counting House, the granite building in front of you, is Merrill's Wharf, completed in 1847. The wharf then was the longest in New Bedford port. Built by Edward Merrill for an expanding whaling fleet, this wharf out…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MI9_from-whales-to-flatfish-and-scallops_New-Bedford-MA.html
The boats you see in the harbor today are mostly commercial fishing vessels - primarily draggers and scallopers; the whaling barks of the past have long since vanished. By the 1930s, just as whaling faded and the textile industry fled to the South…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MI6_dedicated-as-a-tribute_New-Bedford-MA.html
Text on Front side of Monument:
Dedicated as a Tribute
to the
sturdy whalemen who early won fame
for New Bedford
and their successors who,
inheriting ideals and resourcefulness
gave to the city new prominence
by creating
a great manufac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MHO_preserving-whalings-legacy_New-Bedford-MA.html
In 1915, in the waning light of whaling's final decade, Emily Howland Bourne financed the construction of a museum building to honor her whaling merchant father, Jonathan Bourne, Jr. This marked the first steadfast effort to preserve New Bedford's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MHF_a-tribute-of-respect-to-enterprising-whalemen_New-Bedford-MA.html
As a Tribute of Respect
to enterprising whalemen,
sons of New Bedford,
who imperiled their lives,
or perished, in encounters
with monsters of the deep
this tablet is placed here by
the Children of New Bedford
August 1, 1930
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M3B_solomon-family-burial-ground_Attleboro-MA.html
The family of Dr. James M. Solomon is buried here. An obelisk, where the names of the family members are listed, is in the burial yard. The earliest known burial was 1836. Dr. Solomon was the founder of Solomon Sanitarium which was located at the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M2R_battleship-cove-9-11-memorial_Somerset-MA.html
Main inscription
On the 11th of September 2001, at approximately 8:30 am, an attack began against several points in the United States. By 2:00 pm that day, both towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed. A fire was raging in a partially dem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GWF_the-andrew-robeson-house_New-Bedford-MA.html
Change of Address
Andrew Robeson, whaling merchant and steadfast abolitionist, built this Federal-style house in 1821 on a lot on North Second Street, diagonally behind you. The estate, with its conservatory, gardens, surrounding elm trees, and wh…