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ID: 7014196
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014196
Record Type:
administrative
New Bedford (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 070 56 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Acuchnet river; became fishing community & whaling port late 18th cen.; harbor attacked & burned by British during Revolutionary War in 1778; noted for Seaman's Bethel chapel, discribed in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.
Names:
New Bedford
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Achushena
(
C
,
V
)
Acushnet Village
(
C
,
V
)
ניו בדפורד
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Massachusetts
(state) (
P
)
................
Bristol
(county) (
P
)
....................
New Bedford
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as part of Dartmouth by Plymouth colonists in 1652
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1847
county seat (
C
)
port (
C
)
shipbuilding center (
C
)
............
since 1765
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
since decline of whaling early 20th cen., products include textiles, plastics, chemicals, rubber & metal goods
Sources and Contributors:
ניו בדפורד..........
[
IMJ
]
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Achushena..........
[
VP
]
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25006636
Acushnet Village..........
[
VP
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25006636
New Bedford..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 629
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25006636
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 629
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS25006636
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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