New Bedford / Washington / D.C. / Richmond / New York / Newport / /
Company
St S. Sprin co / EE T PAR KING G AR AG / Stre Ho Double Bank Union / IT MATTERS / Samuel Leonard & Company / F. Fletcher House 114 Seventh St. Co / GE / Mechanics Bank / The Liberator / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Man-Made Disaster / M&A / /
Facility
Congress onNew November Fire Museum / Garden Museum / NORTH TERMINAL / Coffin Wharf / Dr William St U.S. Custom ISLAND Park Visitor Center / Lewis Temple / Mill St St / Stre Ho Double Bank Union St New Bedford Whaling Museum PIER / Wharfinger Building / Park Visitor Center / School St University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth College / Because Temple / Performing Arts/ Bristol Community College / Like Temple / Island Marina / /
IndustryTerm
sold whale oil / law office / brother-in-law / real estate / abolitionist newspaper / whale oil refinery / paint / oil / park site / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Verdean / Water Johnny Cake Hill / /
Organization
African Free School / Dartmouth College / New Bedford High School / Boston Vigilance committee / African Union Society / U.S. Department of the Interior / Mad National Park Service U.S. Department / New Bedford Historical Society / University of Massachusetts / Or RI Hartford Lewis Temple House / African Benevolent Society / Congress / National Park Service / Visual and Performing Arts/ Bristol Community College / Mary Rotch House / Post Office / /
Person
Moses Gibbs / Nancy King / William Rotch Jr. / Edward Coffin Jones / George Fletcher / Patience Freeman / Arnold St Zeiterion / William Rotch Rodman / William Winters / William Rotch / Bethel Rodman Pedestrian Candleworks / James Davis / David Coffin / Mary Clark / Polly Johnson / John Briggs / William Rotch Sr. / Paul Cuffe / Henrietta Howland / Elisha Thornton Jr. / Daniel Fisher / John Goings / Charles W. Morgan / John Thompson / Martha / William Piper / MERRI LL / Anna Murray Douglass Nathan / Frederick Douglass / William C. Coffin / William Henry Johnson / Thomas Randolph / Rose Alley / Scho Se Elisha Thornton Jr. / David Fletcher / Thomas Thompson / Gideon Allen / Mary Rotch / Carl Cruz / Harriet Jacobs / William Tallman Russell / Henrietta Howland Robinson / David W. Ruggles / Wing St. Nathan / Mary (Polly) Johnson / John S. Jacobs / Edward Merrill / Frederick Davis / Edward Mott Robinson / Abraham Barker / Cuffe Lawton / Cuttyhunk Hamilton William Rotch Jr. / William Allen / Miguel Fortes / / /
Position
Captain / president / clerk / Coast Guard / Quaker preacher / janitor / walking tour guide / weary sailor / famed author / attorney / druggist / lumber and oil dealer / blacksmith / lawyer / janitor in a New Bedford law office / /
ProvinceOrState
Virginia / District of Columbia / Rhode Island / California / Massachusetts / /
IN the mid 1800s, New Bedford was the whaling capital of the world. The success and global, exploratory nature of the whaling industry helped to create a bustling, cosmopolitan seaport community, and one of the richest