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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM211W_abijah-hathaway-house_New-Bedford-MA.html
Threatened by demolition because it was inthe path of the Route 18 extension, thisGreek Revival style home was moved byWHALE to this once-vacant lot in 1979and sold to owners who restored it. "Building the Future on the Best of the Past"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM211V_bourne-warehouse_New-Bedford-MA.html
A fine example of late 19th century commercial architecture, this warehouse was erected in front of the Andrew Robeson mansion and housed an auction business selling everything from antique furniture to ships. WHALE acquired the building in 1875 a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TXT_nathan-and-mary-polly-johnson-house-historical_New-Bedford-MA.html
This building possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America.
Nathan and Polly Johnson, prominent African American abolitionists, sheltered escaped slaves in this underground railroad "station." It …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SRP_seamens-bethel_New-Bedford-MA.html
(Marker on the left side of the door) "In the same New Bedford there stands a whaleman's chapel and few are the moody fisherman, shortly bound for the Indian or Pacific Oceans who failed to make a Sunday visit to this spot." Moby Dick.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPP_captain-paul-cuffes-atlantic-world_New-Bedford-MA.html
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Cuffe sought support in London from the African Institution - a group that was committed "to stimulating trade with Africa, without itself trading, to promote African education and improved farming methods, and to be a watch-dog against th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ML5_lost-lightship-sailors-memorial_New-Bedford-MA.html
Text on Upper Front (East) Side of Memorial:
Lost Lightship Sailors Memorial
This Memorial created in Memory of
All Lightship Sailors lost in performance of duties
Inspired by Harold Flagg, LV 73
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These…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MKX_colonel-george-claghorn_New-Bedford-MA.html
Text on the Bronze Plaque
Near this Site
was located the shipyard of
Colonel George Claghorn
Builder of U.S. Frigate Constitution
and Ship Rebecca the first whaler
to double Cape Horn.
His service in the War of the
Revolution covered a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MKR_ernestinas-many-lives_New-Bedford-MA.html
Docked across from you (when not at sea as a sail training and education vessel), Ernestina is one of the oldest wooden sailing vessels afloat. The ship is also one of the last surviving Gloucester fishing schooners, one of only two remaining vess…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MKH_cape-verde-to-new-bedford_New-Bedford-MA.html
For many Cape Verde Islanders, the New bedford
wharf area was the first view of America. At the height
of immegration between 1900 and 1921, more than
a dozen packet boats ran between Cape Verde
and New Bedford, the main port of entry. Packe…
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…