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
Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Fort
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
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.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.62695° or 41° 37′ 37″ northLongitude
-70.90912° or 70° 54′ 33″ westOpen location code
87HFJ3GR+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 713055704OpenStreetMap feature
building=lighthouse
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