New Bedford is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
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36 Facts About New Bedford
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New Bedford was a center of abolitionism at this time.
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From 1876 to 1900, New Bedford served as the initial home port for the Revenue Cutter School of Instruction, the precursor of the United States Coast Guard Academy.
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New Bedford remains known for its fishing fleet and accompanying seafood industry, which as of 2019 generated the highest annual value of any fishing port in the United States.
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The Dukes of New Bedford, a leading English aristocratic house, bore the surname Russell.
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New Bedford had a deeper harbor and was located on the mainland.
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Ships from New Bedford came back to port with barrels of oil, spermaceti, and occasionally ambergris.
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On March 18,1847, the town of New Bedford officially became a city; Abraham Hathaway Howland was elected its first mayor.
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Quakers of New Bedford applied their principles of egalitarianism and community-building in their businesses.
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New Bedford became one of the first fermentation centers of abolitionism in North America, and an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Textile mills redefined wealth in New Bedford, and gave birth to a prosperity greater than that of the whaling industry.
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New Bedford, funded by industrial fortunes, developed a thriving art scene.
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New Bedford is a coastal city, a seaport, bordered on the west by Dartmouth, on the north by Freetown, on the east by Acushnet and Fairhaven, and on the south by Buzzards Bay.
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New Bedford has a cooler than normal version of a humid subtropical climate that in many aspects resembles a humid continental one, but with slightly milder winters.
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New Bedford and surrounding communities are a part of the Providence metropolitan area.
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The Greater Providence-Fall River-New Bedford area is home to the largest Portuguese-American community in the United States.
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Economy of the Pilgrim settlement in the New Bedford area was initially based around a few farming and fishing villages.
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Age of Sail ships built in New Bedford include the schooner Caroline and whaleship Charles W Morgan.
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New Bedford was able to remain wealthy because of its textile industry.
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From 1999 to 2019, New Bedford has been the most valuable commercial fishing port in the United States.
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Port of New Bedford is a major harbor for freight and passenger services, generating over $9.
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New Bedford has historically been a major city for whaling and commercial fishing, and remains an important site for the latter to this day.
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New Bedford is represented in the state legislature by officials elected from the following districts:.
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New Bedford has been known to be a very aggressive interior attack department when responding to fire emergencies, and has been considered to be among the best in the state.
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New Bedford is home to one of Fisher College's neighborhood campuses.
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New Bedford is part of the Providence TV market but is the city of license for two TV stations; WLNE-TV Channel 6 is the ABC affiliate for the market, and WLWC Channel 28 is Court TV affiliate.
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New Bedford has had a sporadic history of successful musicians.
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New Bedford had a Class B professional Baseball team called The Whalers from 1895 to 1915.
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Team from New Bedford won the 1977 edition of the Pony League World Series, defeating a team from Lake Worth, Florida, in the championship game.
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New Bedford has nine historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places.
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New Bedford writes in detail about the life and times of New Bedford in the late 1840s in his celebrated autobiography.
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New Bedford had a small but thriving African-American community during the antebellum period.
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New Bedford was an inventor known for building a torpedo which he later fired down a street in the city.
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In 2002, the movie Passionada was filmed in New Bedford, making it the first film to be shot in the city in 45 years.
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Character named New Bedford appeared on a Family Guy episode as a friend of another girl named Dakota.
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