Pictures of New Bedford from 1602 until today

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Pictures and History of Places In New Bedford Formerly known as Dartmouth, then Bedford Village, then New Bedford in Massachusetts
1792 - First Post Office - Union and Purchase Street - William Tobey Postmaster
1805 Water and William Streets
1807 Purchase Street Facing North
1815 Centre Street - Watercolor Painting by William Allen Wall
1820 Union and Purchase Streets
Merchants National Bank and it's different four locations over the years - 1825 to today
1828 image of 1700's Bridge at Lund's Corner
1828 Image of 1700's Bridge at Lunds Corner with the Quaker Meeting House
1800's Charles W. Morgan's House On County Street at the top of William Street
1800's early 1900's Lunds Corner Photo
1800's St Helena Restaurant - Cafe - 83 Union St. cor. Bethel (Johnny Cake Hill)
1800's Photograph Of A Scene At The Bottom Of Centre Street With Oil Casks
1830 List of Accepted Streets
1833 William Rotch Rodman and Mayor Abraham Howland Home 388 County Street
1834 John Howland Jr. House burned in 2005
1836 Building 160 No. Front Street - Charles S Paisler - Location of The Infamous 'Ark"
1840 Pearl Street - First Train Station
1856 Police House - Night Watch
1857 - 1897 Allen Smith Jr. Boarding Stable, Hack and Llivery. Also Sold Bicycles
1858 Mill Stream and Mill Pond emptying into Clark's Cove
1861 Fifth Street School -1st to fly American Flag and Antonio "Sunshine" Ramos
1876 History of Sacred Heart Parish - School - Convent - Students - Church
1880 - 1977 Dawson Grocery - Spirits Importer & Wholesaler - Dawson Brewery
1887 - 4th of July Parade Purchase and Union Streets
1889 South-East View From The High School Tower
1893 Davis & Hatch Spice Company - 26 Union Street. owned by Frank E. Fowler
1894 Haskell and Tripp - Purchase and William Streets
1897 Union Street Looking West Before The Widening
1897 J. & W.R. Wing & Co. - 131 - 133 Union Street
1897 F.M. Douglass Drug - 212 Union Street
1897 - F.S. Brightman Stationary Store - 125 - 127 - 129 Union Street
1897 Public Library and Odd Fellows Hall
1897 Acushnet Mills Boiler Explosion 1
1897 Acushnet Mills Boiler Explosion Picker Room
1897 Acushnet Mills Boiler Explosion Police Station
1897 Citizens National Bank - Corner of William and So.Second St. - Currently Freestones
1897 New Bedford Safe Deposit and Trust - northeast corner Acushnet Ave. and William St.
Denny Shay's Bar ( with horse and dog) Late 1800's New Bedford
Former 3rd District Court - Visitor Center 2nd and William Street
Seaman's Bethel and Mariners Home on Johnny Cake Hill - 1
Late 1800's - 1900's Hacienda Buiding and Pease's Pharmacy - 926 Acushnet Avenue
1800's Martha Brigg's School For Runaway Slaves
Liberty Hall - Purchase and William streets - northwest corner.
Early Orphan's Home
Horvitz Whaling Outfitters
Taber Street - New Bedford Orphan's Home
Fairhaven Bridge 1 - 1906
Fairhaven Bridge 2
Fairhaven Bridge 3 - View From The Old Yacht Club Black & White Photo
Fairhaven Bridge 4 - View From The Old Yacht Club - Colorized photo
Fairhaven Bridge 5 - 1900 Reconstruction
Fairhaven Bridge 6 - 1902 Finished Reconstruction
Fairhaven Bridge 7 - 1800s Scene 1
Fairhaven Bridge 8 - 1800's Photo 1
Fairhaven Bridge 9 1900's painting
High School on Summer Street Before 1909
High School on County Street Opened 1909
Sacred Heart Parish & School - Summer and Robeson Streets - New Bedford
St. Anthony's Parish - first offices - North Union Hall
1900 St. Anthony's parish grounds before church construction - 1900 Paroise St. Antoine
1905 St. Luke's Hospital Picture Chronological History Points from 1884 to 2008
1905 Photogarph And History Of The Second Station Depot built in 1886
1906 Image of the 1853 Parker Street Grammar School
1906 New Bedford Quaker Friends Meeting House
1906 - 1907 City Hall and the YMCA Double Postcard With a Large Image And Text.
1907 Weld Square
1907 Corner Of Union And Purchase Streets Looking North
1907 Corner Purchase and William Streets looking south on Purchase Street
1908 Coggeshall Bridge
1908 Cottage Street looking North from Arnold Street intersection
1909 Allen's Theatre - 1919 photo And History
1910 Union Street Railway Station - Talbot's Clothing - Cherry & Co - C. F Wing
1912 Elm Pool Room
1912 Elm Pool Room Outside
1912 Sunday Morning Boys - Skating - Hockey New Bedford
1913 Postal Delivery Wagon And Driver
1915 Wm. F. Potter & Co. Business And Delivery Truck
1918 Automobile Owners (56 residents) Make of car and Horsepower
1919 Alice's Stylish Millinery - 1745 Acushnet Avenue - New Bedford
1921 Wainer Bros. Fruit - 11 S. Water St.
1921 Washington Club
Centre Street Before Historic Renovations of 2 buildings by R.P. Valois and Co.
Acushnet Park and Dan's Pavillion
Alms House and Poor Farm at Clark's Point - Begun 1828 See 1907 Photo of Farm workers
Hurricane Barrier Construction 1966 and 2010 aerial views
Jack and Harry's Downtown - mid 1920's - 1970's
David Duff & Sons Coal
King Phillip's Cave
Palmer's Island and Lighthouse History

1930 Standard Stores
1930 Cliff Bates' Rolling Grocer Wagon
1930's Frates Dairy family built the Frates Bottle Restaurant
1930's Olympia Theater and Duesenberg - Downtown New Bedford
1939 Photo of the Oil Company fake Lighthouse at Mill and Kempton Streets - New Bedford
The Neelia damaged 1938 Hurricane- Sank 1940
1940, June 16 - Union Street Railway cars 601 and 283 at Fort Rodman
1940's On-ramp to the New Bedford - Fairhaven Bridge - Rt. 6
1940's New Bedford Public Market
1940's Dions Pharmacy - Boucher's Clothing - Stop & Shop after 1947
1947 and a bit later - Union Street Railway Bus Station and Bus
1948 Revere Copper and Brass Neon Sign
1950's George N. Alden Ambulance Corps - Normand Chartier volunteer
1950's Mystery View of New Bedford
1950 Mobile Gas station Acushnet Ave near Weld Sq. - Louis Baron
1954 Hurricane Carol - Shipwrecked on Pier
Mid 1900's Times Buiding etc. Arial View
1957 Chet's Oak Service Filling Station - Corner of Oak St. - Dartmouth Street - Rockland St.
1957 South End New Bedford - Bill Marlow TV - Radio Service
1959 Lorraine's Coffee Shop
1961 Frates Dairy on Cove Rd and South Water St.
1963 WTEV New Bedford's Television Station
1964 - Photo Clips from a New Bedford Film "A Rising Tide" with Chet Huntley
1973 Centre Street
1970's Cove View Drive-In - 2010 Hancock's Seafood
2007 June - The end of the New Bedford Lightship LV 114/WAL 536 fiasco
2011 - April 23 - Exercise Tiger Memorial Ceremony - Fort Taber
Tropical Storn Irene
Also:
1855 New Bedford Almanac - 1850 Census including free and slave populations by state.
1773 One Classroom School House - Padanaram

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Pictures and History of Places In New Bedford

Formerly known as Dartmouth, then Bedford Village, then New Bedford in Massachusetts

Formerly known as Dartmouth,
then Bedford Village, then New Bedford in Massachusetts