Palmer Island Light

Palmer Island Light is a building in Bristol, Massachusetts. Palmer Island Light is situated nearby to the pier New Bedford Hurricane Protection Barrier, as well as near the island Dix Ledge.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Palmer Island Light and Fort Phoenix.

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 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. Fort Phoenix is situated 2,100 feet southeast of 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. New Bedford Whaling Museum is situated 1 mile northwest of Palmer Island Light.

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 Palmer Island Light.

Palmer Island Light

Type: Building
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.62695° or 41° 37′ 37″ north

Longitude

-70.90912° or 70° 54′ 33″ west

Open location code

87HFJ3GR+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 713055704

OpenStreetMap feature

building=lighthouse

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