New Bedford, MA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The famous old whaling port of NEW BEDFORD , 45 miles due south of Boston, is still home to one of the nation's most prosperous fishing fleets which, each year, haul in the largest catch on the east coast. Ongoing development and a waterfront highway have obscured some of its past, but on County Street the fine old houses still stand of which Melville commented: New Bedford is a queer place. Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador … all these brave houses and flowery gardens came up from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian … more »