Brayton Point Power Station
Brayton Point Power Station was a coal-fired power plant located in Somerset, Massachusetts. It was the largest coal-fired generating station in New England, and was the last coal-fired power station in Massachusetts to provide power to the regional grid.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include USS Massachusetts and USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr..
USS Massachusetts
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USS Massachusetts is the third of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, they took advantage… USS Massachusetts is situated 1½ miles east of Brayton Point Power Station.
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
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USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. is a former United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer. The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former U.S. USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. is situated 1½ miles southeast of Brayton Point Power Station.
Borden Flats Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Marcbela, Public domain.
Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, US. It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse. Borden Flats Light is situated 1 mile southeast of Brayton Point Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Swansea and Ocean Grove.
Ocean Grove
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ocean Grove is a census-designated place in the town of Swansea in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, on the north shore of Mount Hope Bay near the Cole River. The population was 2,811 at the 2010 census, and 2,904 as of the 2020 census.
Touisset
Hamlet
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Touisset is a hamlet, which is situated 2 miles west of Brayton Point Power Station.
Brayton Point Power Station
- Type: Brownfield land
- Description: former coal-fired power plant
- Categories: coal-fired power station, gas turbine power station, oil-fired power station, and industry
- Location: Town of Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.71473° or 41° 42′ 53″ northLongitude
-71.19054° or 71° 11′ 26″ westOperator
Dominion EnergyOpen location code
87HCPR75+VQOpenStreetMap ID
way 420142863OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=brownfieldWikidata ID
Q15204242
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In Other Languages
From German to Polish—“Brayton Point Power Station” goes by many names.
- German: “Kraftwerk Brayton Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brayton Point kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Brayton Point kraftverk”
- Polish: “Elektrownia Brayton Point”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brayton Point Salt Marsh and Brayton Point Beach.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brayton Point Power Station”. Photo: Z22, CC BY-SA 3.0.