Griffin Street Cemetery
The Griffin Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Located at the junction of South 2nd and Griffin Streets, and abutting the JFK Memorial Highway to the east, it is the city's oldest surviving cemetery.Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Bedford Fire Museum and St. John the Baptist Church.
New Bedford Fire Museum
Museum
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 1,100 feet west of Griffin Street Cemetery.
St. John the Baptist Church
Church
Photo: Lukascb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 1,300 feet southwest of Griffin Street Cemetery.
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. New Bedford Whaling Museum is situated 2,400 feet north of Griffin Street Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fairhaven and Bliss Corner.
Fairhaven
Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
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.
Smith Mills
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smith Mills is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Smith Mills had a population of 4,832. Smith Mills is situated 3½ miles west of Griffin Street Cemetery.
Griffin Street Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Massachusetts, United States
- Category: burial
- Location: New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.62856° or 41° 37′ 43″ northLongitude
-70.92272° or 70° 55′ 22″ westOpen location code
87HFJ3HG+CWOpenStreetMap ID
way 313033279OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q16840274
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