Fort Phoenix Beach State Reservation

Fort Phoenix Beach State Reservation is a nature reserve in Bristol, Massachusetts. Fort Phoenix Beach State Reservation is situated nearby to the hamlet Harbor View, as well as near Pope Beach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Bedford Whaling Museum and Palmer Island Light.

New Bedford Whaling Museum

Museum

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The New Bedford Whaling Museum is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that focuses on the history, science, art, and culture of the international whaling industry, and the colonial region of Old Dartmouth in the South Coast of 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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Bedford and Fairhaven.

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

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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.

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.

Fort Phoenix Beach State Reservation

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

41.6251° or 41° 37′ 30″ north

Longitude

-70.8982° or 70° 53′ 54″ west

Open location code

87HFJ4G2+2P

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29688331

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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