New Bedford
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- Names
New Bedford
Achushena
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- 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.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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