Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery
The Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery are a pair of connected cemeteries at 149 Dartmouth Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts United States. They occupy an irregular parcel of land more than 90 acres in size on the west side of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Also known as: “Friends Burying Ground”, “New Bedford Rural Cemetery”, and “Rural Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. Luke’s Hospital and New Bedford Fire Museum.
St. Luke’s Hospital
Hospital
St. Luke's Hospital is a Massachusetts hospital located at 101 Page Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. St. Luke’s Hospital is situated 2,000 feet north of Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery.
New Bedford Fire Museum
Museum
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The New Bedford Fire Museum is a local history museum at 51 Bedford Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the 1867 Fire Station No. New Bedford Fire Museum is situated 1 mile northeast of Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery.
St. John the Baptist Church
Church
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St. John the Baptist is a historic church in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and a former parish of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Fall River. At its closure, it had been the oldest Portuguese-American parish in the United States. St. John the Baptist Church is situated 4,000 feet northeast of Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery.
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. The population was 5,280 at the 2010 census.
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.
Smith Mills
Hamlet
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Smith Mills is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,760 at the 2010 census. Smith Mills is situated 3 miles northwest of Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery.
Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.62136° or 41° 37′ 17″ northLongitude
-70.93952° or 70° 56′ 22″ westElevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
87HFJ3C6+G5OpenStreetMap ID
way 152471254OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Swedish—“Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Nyu-Bedford kənd qəbiristanlığı”
- Swedish: “Rural Cemetery and Friends Cemetery”
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