Palmer Island Light

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.

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Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse in Massachusetts, United States
Also known as: “Palmer Island Lighthouse” and “Palmers Island Light”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Phoenix and New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Fort Phoenix

Fort

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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.

Crow Island

Island

Crow Island is an inhabited island located in New Bedford Harbor in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

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

Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.62694° or 41° 37′ 37″ north

Longitude

-70.9091° or 70° 54′ 33″ west

Inception

1849

Operator

United States Coast Guard

Open location code

87HFJ3GR+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 713055704

OpenStreetMap feature

building=lighthouse

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=lighthouse

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

Wikidata ID

Q7128244

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Palmer Island Light” goes by many names.

French: “phare de Palmer Island”
French: “Phare de Palmer Island”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Palmer Island and New Bedford Hurricane Protection Barrier.

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