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New Bedford, MA Skyline
Contact: Donna Bradbury
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New Bedford, Massachusetts
Founded in 1787, New Bedford is nicknamed "The Whaling City" because it was one of the world's most important whaling ports in the nineteenth century, along with Nantucket Massachusetts, and New London Connecticut. By the mid-19th century three-fifths of the U.S. whaling fleet which totaled more than 700 vessels, were registered here.
New Bedford's whaling industry influenced its shoreside industry, fashion, architecture, and culture. Today, the city's whaling roots are depicted in its art, industry, and demographics. In its heyday, the city was more diverse than Boston and New York
Some of the more well-know people of that time are Herman Melville who immortalized NB in Moby Dick, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the “richest woman in the world” Hetty Green and whaling merchant, William Rotch, Jr.