Fort Phoenix

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.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Palmer Island Light and Fairhaven Town Hall.

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. Palmer Island Light is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Fort Phoenix.

Fairhaven Town Hall

Town hall

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Fairhaven Town Hall is the town hall of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. It is located at 40 Center Street, between Walnut and William Streets, across Center Street from the Millicent Library. Fairhaven Town Hall is situated 1 mile north of Fort Phoenix.

Millicent Library

Library

Millicent Library is a community library and nationally registered historic place in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. It was donated to Fairhaven by the family of Millicent Gifford Rogers, the youngest daughter of Abbie Gifford and wealthy industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers. Millicent Library is situated 4,200 feet north of Fort Phoenix.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven and New Bedford.

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.

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. Bliss Corner is situated 2 miles southwest of Fort Phoenix.

Fort Phoenix

Type: Fort
Description: American Revolutionary War-era fort located at the entrance to the Fairhaven-New Bedford harbor in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.62428° or 41° 37′ 27″ north

Longitude

-70.90226° or 70° 54′ 8″ west

Open location code

87HFJ3FX+P3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 633728805

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=fort

Wikidata ID

Q5471820

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In Other Languages

“Fort Phoenix” goes by many names.

Egyptian Arabic: “حصن فينيكس”

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