Local New Bedford, Ma. History
2010 - 2019 In Chronological Order
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Above - Freestones City Grill - corner of 41 William and North 2nd Street
At one time it was the Citizens National Bank Building |
2010
Scott Lang is the Mayor. As an attorney he brought some valuable skills to the job.
In March we have seen the last tryworks of the whaling era destroyed in the Robinson Oil Works building as part of a renovation by a local hotelier.
There were 10 pedestrian fatalities in New Bedford during the year 2010
There were 1,213 burglaries in the city a rise in burglaries by 7% from 2009.
Many were in un-occupied homes where the copper pipe was stolen.
There were 24 cases of arson, 1,622 cases of larceny, 70 rapes, 278 robberies, 794 assaults, 3 murders, 370 motor vehicle thefts reported. There was a decrease in violent crime.
2010 saw a 3% decrease in crime from 2009. The unemployment rate was 17% for 2010.
The Latino population of New Bedford rose from 7% or 6,653 in 1990 to 16.7% or 15,916 residents. At this time 1 of 6 residents in New Bedford were Hispanic.
The down town historic and business area has seen a great resurgence with small businesses, restaurants and more venues for live entertainment.
After years of down sliding since the nearby (North) Dartmouth Mall was constructed from 1969 to 1971. This is a remarkable and welcomed turnaround.
The opposite is true of the economy in general as a local jobless rate is not good. Coming out of the last era of economic disaster the region struggled to keep it's head above water financially.
January's national unemployment rate dropped from 10 percent to 9.7 percent.
Typically New Bedford of late has done poorly as far as jobs are concerned.
The John Russell Thornton House, the home to abolitionists who hid runaway slaves on the so called "Abolitionists Row" burned and was a total loss. it was across the street from the Nathan and Polly Johnson house on Seventh street. and next door to the Elisha Thornton Jr. house, another abolitionist home. |
Whaling City the movie was finished being filmed in New Bedford and not yet released. As of 2010 it is still in post production. Writer/director Jay Burke was the creator of this film.
The plotline is: "An independent commercial fisherman must fight to save his boat, his livelihood, and his way of life."
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Time will tell if this link still works but here is an informative Whaling City Film facebook page .
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 During the Fall and early Winter a European film company headed by French director Nathalie Mansoux (Via de Acesso) she is pictured on the right, and cameraman Joao Pedro Placido came to New Bedford to complete shooting of a film written by Mansoux concerning the 2007 deportations of factory workers in New Bedford and the lasting effects on family and community in New Bedford and Portugal.
Upon completion of several months more shooting in Europe and then editing, the film will arrive in late 2011 for its New Bedford - United States premiere.
The crew were frequent guests of singer/songwriter Sarah Bishop Valentine who accompanied them and who has a residence on Hawthorn Street in New Bedford and London,UK. |
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2011
Feb. 26, The New Bedford Whaling Museum's dedication day for the small park at the corner of Johnny Cake Hill and Union Street dedicated to Paul Cuffee the son of a freed slave and an Aquinah Indian who was very sucessful as a whaling master, ship builder and owner of a shipping company that did business between the area and West Indies,etc.
He had a store on the corners of Water and Union streets in New Bedford with his sons-in-law, farms in Dartmouth and Westport and docks and a shipyard in Westport. More on Paul Cuffe |
March 11,
the mayor of Derry in Northern Ireland, Colum Eastwood, and the mayoress Rachael Parks came to visit to New Bedford.
They toured the city that Friday with Friendly Sons president, Derry native Chris Donnelly. |
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| U.S. Census figures released March 22, 2011 showed that New Bedford's population grew by 1.39 % in in the last 10 years. As of that March 22, 2011 there were 95,072 residents.
This put the city in 6th place for population in Massachusetts.
By March of 2011, the unemployment rate dropped to 16% from 2010.
The Elisha Thornton Jr. house, on "Ablitionist Row" had a hole in it's roof, water damage and rotted out walls and beams. It was demolished.
This was another historic home where runaway slaves were given shelter and were able to hide from those who were sent to capture them.
It is across the street from the Nathan and Polly Johnson house which was at 21 Seventh street and also across the street from New Bedford's first Quaker meeting house at 17 - 19 Seventh Street.. |
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April 28, 2011
A ceremony took place at Fort Taber with many dignitaries from USA and the UK., honoring the 749 American soldiers and sailors who lost their lives on April 28th 1944 off the coast of Slapton Sands and Devon England as a result of "Exercise Tiger".
Jayme Rego and Normand Chartier laid a memorial wreath. Iit was attended by many dignitaries from USA and England who took to the podium to share their thoughts nd memorialize theevent.. |
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A $13,000,000 investment at the former Victoria Mills building located at 10 Manomet St. location was rehabilitated as 100 individual one and two bedroom apartments and renamed the Victoria Riverside Townhouse Lofts.
As the Victoria Mills it was built in 1896 and later listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
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| We have yet to see how the decade will pan out news wise. More to come. |
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