Knowles Beach

Knowles Beach is a nature reserve in Bristol, Massachusetts. Knowles Beach is situated nearby to the hamlet Bayview, as well as near the village South Dartmouth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dartmouth High School and Clarks Point Light.

Dartmouth High School

School

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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.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Bedford and Bliss Corner.

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

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. As of the 2020 census, Bliss Corner had a population of 5,480.

Knowles Beach

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

41.5802° or 41° 34′ 49″ north

Longitude

-70.9496° or 70° 56′ 59″ west

Inception

July 11th, 1985

Open location code

87HFH3J2+35

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29694928

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Knowles Beach and Knowles Reserve.

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