Ricketsons Point
Ricketsons Point is a cape in Bristol, Massachusetts. Ricketsons Point is situated nearby to the hamlet Bayview, as well as near Shore Acres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clarks Point Light and Hazelwood Park.
Clarks Point Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Dartmouth High School
School
Photo: Paulfurtado, Public domain.
Dartmouth High School is a four-year public high school serving grades 9 to 12, located in the southern half of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Ricketsons Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Ricketson Point” and “Ricketson’s Point”
- Category: landform
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.57732° or 41° 34′ 38″ northLongitude
-70.93801° or 70° 56′ 17″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87HFH3G6+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 7516188707OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
4948679
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