Lone Rock
Lone Rock is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Lone Rock is situated nearby to the hamlet Nonquitt, as well as near Shore Acres.Places of Interest
Highlights include Dumpling Rocks Light and Clarks Point Light.
Dumpling Rocks Light
Lighthouse
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Dumpling Rocks Light is a light on a skeleton tower on Dumpling Rock, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. It replaced the wooden Dumpling Rock Light, built 1889, which had replaced the original stone lighthouse established in 1829.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bliss Corner and New Bedford.
Bliss Corner
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bliss Corner is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,280 at the 2010 census.
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.
Fairhaven
Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Lone Rock
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.56066° or 41° 33′ 38″ northLongitude
-70.91476° or 70° 54′ 53″ westOpen location code
87HFH36P+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 358273983OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4942367Wikidata ID
Q49654059
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Lone Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lone Rock”
- Turkish: “Lone Rock”
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