Massachusetts
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
New Bedford's waterfront once connected local streets to a global whaling economy. This walk follows the port, museum, chapel and working neighbourhoods to examine the wealth it produced, the labour it demanded and the memories it left behind.
Stories in New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
- New Bedford: The Port That Hunted the World
- The Waterfront: Wealth Began with Killing Whales at Sea
- The Whaling Museum: Turning a Global Industry into Memory
- Seamen's Bethel: Religion, Reform and the Pulpit Melville Invented
- Mariners' Home: What Happened to Sailors Between Voyages
- U.S. Custom House: The Federal Government at the Center of a Global Port
- Lewis Temple: The Blacksmith Who Changed the Harpoon
- Nathan and Polly Johnson House: Freedom Had an Address
- Frederick Douglass in New Bedford: A New Name and a First Free Wage
- Quaker New Bedford: Equality, Wealth and an Uncomfortable Industry
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House: The Mansion the Ocean Paid For
- County Street: When Whaling Wives Ran the Shore Side of Life
- Global Crews: Wampanoag, Black, Cape Verdean, Azorean and Pacific Lives
- After Whaling: A Port Changes Industry but Not Identity