Butler Flats

Butler Flats is a flat in Bristol, Massachusetts. Butler Flats is situated nearby to the hamlet Silver Shell Beach, as well as near Winsegansett Heights.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Butler Flats Lighthouse and Clarks Point Light.

Butler Flats Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Butler Flats Light is a sparkplug lighthouse located in the outer harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the mouth of the Acushnet River. Built in 1898 by the United States Lighthouse Board, it is the only known caisson lighthouse designed by a marine architect.

Clarks Point Light

Lighthouse

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The Clarks Point Light is located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Originally constructed as a wooden tower, it was replaced with a stone tower in 1804. This in turn was replaced by a structure on the parapets of Fort Rodman which was deactivated in 1898.

Hazelwood Park

Park

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Hazelwood Park is a public park on Clark's Point in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The park occupies a plot of 23 acres on the west side of New Bedford's southern peninsula, between Rodney French Boulevard and Brock Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bliss Corner and Fairhaven.

Bliss Corner

Hamlet

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Bliss Corner is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bliss Corner had a population of 5,480. Bliss Corner is situated 2½ miles west of Butler Flats.

Fairhaven

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Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.

New Bedford

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New Bedford is in Massachusetts on the southern coast. New Bedford's excellent harbor made it a natural fishing and whaling center. It was the world's premier whaling port in the 19th century, and, for a time, "the richest city in the world" and "the city that lit the world" because of whale oil production.

Butler Flats

Type: Flat
Category: body of water
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.60344° or 41° 36′ 12″ north

Longitude

-70.89448° or 70° 53′ 40″ west

Open location code

87HFJ434+96

GeoNames ID

4931835

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