Coffin-Howland House

Coffin-Howland House is a historic building in Bristol, Massachusetts. Coffin-Howland House is situated nearby to Hazelwood Park, as well as near the historic building Congdon-Lucan House.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hazelwood Park and Clarks Point Light.

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.

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. Clarks Point Light is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Coffin-Howland House.

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. Butler Flats Lighthouse is situated 1 mile east of Coffin-Howland House.

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.

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.

Coffin-Howland House

Type: Historic building
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.60684° or 41° 36′ 25″ north

Longitude

-70.91422° or 70° 54′ 51″ west

Open location code

87HFJ34P+P8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 214658949

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Congdon-Lucan House and Rosemary S. Tierney Community Center.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Rodney French Memorial and Hazelwood Park & Community Center.

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