Fort Phoenix

Fort Phoenix is a park in Bristol, Massachusetts. Fort Phoenix is situated nearby to the pier New Bedford Hurricane Protection Barrier, as well as near the lighthouse Palmer Island Light.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Phoenix and Palmer Island Light.

Fort Phoenix

Fort

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Fort Phoenix is a former American Revolutionary War-era fort located at the entrance to the Fairhaven-New Bedford harbor, south of U.S. 6 in Fort Phoenix Park in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

Palmer Island Light

Lighthouse

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Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble. Palmer Island Light is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Fort Phoenix.

Fairhaven Town Hall

Town hall

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Fairhaven Town Hall is the town hall of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. It is located at 40 Center Street, between Walnut and William Streets, across Center Street from the Millicent Library. Fairhaven Town Hall is situated 1 mile north of Fort Phoenix.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven and New Bedford.

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.

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 2 miles southwest of Fort Phoenix.

Fort Phoenix

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.62429° or 41° 37′ 27″ north

Longitude

-70.9021° or 70° 54′ 8″ west

Open location code

87HFJ3FX+P5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4642668448

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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