Curious SouthCoast: What's in a name? For 'New Bedford,' it was too late to be 'Bedford'
Whaling Museums wants to hear your storyThe New Bedford Whaling Museum wants to hear your story for its exhibit 'Common Ground: a Community Mosaic'...
Whaling Museums wants to hear your storyThe New Bedford Whaling Museum wants to hear your story for its exhibit 'Common Ground: a Community Mosaic' to preserve New Bedford's current history.NEW BEDFORD — It's New Bedford, not to be confused with Bedford, but it used to be Bedford, or rather Bedford Village.'Our place was for a long time known as the Village of Bedford,' Daniel Ricketson writes in 'The History of New Bedford, Mass.,' published by the author in 1858, 'and to many, even at the present time, the sound of this time-honored designation is much more familiar than that of the City.