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New Bedford, Massachusetts Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore New Bedford, Massachusetts from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures New Bedford building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in New Bedford, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and FEMA. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed New Bedford artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves New Bedford. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of New Bedford brings back fond memories.
Explore the full map of New Bedford, Massachusetts and read about the local places it shows.
Find your street
Names on the New Bedford map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks16
- Downtown
- Inland Park
- Butler Flats
- Clarks Point
- Crow Island
- Dix Ledge
- Acushnet River Reservoir
- Hamlins Pond
- Rural Cemetery
- Plainville
- Mount Pleasant
- Pine Hill Acres
Show all 16 places
- Rockdale
- Westgate Park
- Westview Park
- Clifford
Streets and roads183
- Acushnet Avenue
- Ashley Boulevard
- Kempton Street
- Mill Street
- Brownell Avenue
- Sassaquin Avenue
- Mount Pleasant Street
- River Road
- Cottage Street
- North Front Street
- Sawyer Street
- Shawmut Avenue
- Rockdale Avenue
- County Street
- Church Street
- Purchase Street
- Phillips Road
- Belleville Avenue
- Pleasant Street
- Hathaway Road
- Airport Road
- Rodney French Boulevard
- Summer Street
- East Rodney French Boulevard
- Tarkiln Hill Road
- Nash Road
- Coggeshall Street
- Orchard Street
- Brock Avenue
- Hillman Street
Show all 183 streets
- Union Street
- Old Plainville Road
- Hawthorn Street
- Elm Street
- Macarthur Drive
- Allen Street
- South Second Street
- Parker Street
- Maxfield Street
- Braley Road
- Wood Street
- Bedford Street
- Cedar Street
- Samuel Barnet Boulevard
- Durfee Street
- Brook Street
- Arnold Street
- Cove Road
- Duchaine Boulevard
- Bolton Street
- Dartmouth Street
- State Street
- Morton Avenue
- Maple Street
- Downey Street
- Chaffee Street
- Myrtle Street
- Highland Street
- Bonney Street
- Coffin Avenue
- Davis Street
- Hemlock Street
- Collette Street
- Central Avenue
- Harwich Street
- Crapo Street
- Potter Street
- Cleveland Street
- Cornell Street
- Irvington Street
- Grape Street
- Pine Hill Drive
- Prescott Street
- Ohio Street
- Jarry Street
- Deane Street
- Jenny Lind Street
- Lafayette Street
- Welby Road
- Worcester Street
- Matthew Street
- Weld Street
- Washburn Street
- Kings Highway
- Tallman Street
- Adelaide Street
- Mill Road
- Joyce Street
- Oakdale Street
- John Street
- Lucy Street
- Wilson Street
- May Street
- King Street
- Rhonda Drive
- Gifford Street
- Wilbur Street
- Ivy Road
- Popes Is
- Jones Street
- Lang Street
- Park Street
- Belleville Road
- West Rodney French Boulevard
- Rivet Street
- John Vertente Boulevard
- Ash Street
- Hathaway Street
- Bartlett Street
- Herman Melville Boulevard
- Willis Street
- Ryan Street
- Brooklawn Street
- Portland Street
- Hunter Street
- Cove Street
- Grinnell Street
- Appleton Street
- Lowell Street
- Locust Street
- Butler Street
- Theodore Rice Boulevard
- Easton Street
- Doreen Street
- Briarwood Drive
- Bryant Lane
- Peckham Street
- Mate Drive
- Frank Street
- Sylvia Street
- Foster Street
- Oak Street
- Logan Street
- Lucas Street
- Forbes Street
- Hope Street
- Essex Street
- Mina Street
- Mary Street
- Rosa Drive
- First Street
- Otis Street
- Aviation Way
- New Plainville Road
- Court Street
- Heritage Drive
- Rowe Street
- Morgan Street
- Page Street
- Terry Lane
- South Front Street
- Beverly Street
- Raymond Street
- Morris Street
- Lambeth Street
- Scott Street
- Ellen Street
- Elliot Street
- Hassey Street
- Lark Street
- Hill Road
- Erin Court
- Peckham Road
- Liberty Street
- Wildwood Road
- Austin Street
- Mount Vernon Street
- Fair Street
- Riverside Avenue
- South Rodney French Boulevard
- Field Street
- Norman Street
- Madeira Avenue
- Nauset Street
- Willard Street
- Geraldine Street
- Bay Street
- Covell Street
- Holly Tree Lane
- Swan Street
- Alden Street
- Lauren Drive
- Leroy Street
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford is a city of 101,079 people in Bristol County, on the Acushnet River's west bank where it opens into Buzzards Bay. English colonists bought the land in 1652 as part of Old Dartmouth, a 115,000-acre tract sold by Ousamequin and his son Wamsutta, and Quakers soon made up most of its settlers. On February 23, 1787, a riverside section known as Bedford Village was incorporated as a separate town under the name New Bedford, and in 1847 it became a city.
Joseph Rotch came from Nantucket in 1765 to build up the whale fishery, and other leading Nantucket whaling families followed. British troops burned the village's ships and wharves in 1778, but after the Revolution its deeper mainland harbor let New Bedford pass Nantucket as the country's top whaling port. The population rose from about 4,000 in 1820 to about 24,000 by 1860. In 1857, 329 whaling vessels crowded the harbor, worth more than $12 million together, and no city in North America was richer per person.
“New Bedford's wealth was brought from the depths of the ocean by her sons, who braved every danger, accepted every hazard, and fearlessly entered unknown regions”
- To the Falklands in 1774Whaling here began with sloops of 40 to 60 tons that usually hunted in pairs and split the blubber of each whale between them. Within ten years the fleet had grown to about fifty bigger ships, and in 1774 New Bedford whalers reached the Falkland Islands. The Revolution ended that venture. Aaron Lopez of Newport and the Rotches sent fifteen ships south to set up a station there, and only one arrived.
- The mill few believed inIn the 1840s one backer, sensing that whaling might not last, pushed to build a cotton mill here. Investors were slow: capital was fixed at only $160,000, and most bought a few shares just to please friends. The legislature chartered Wamsutta on April 8, 1846.
- Where Douglass took his nameFrederick Douglass and his wife, Anna Murray Douglass, came to New Bedford in 1838 after he escaped slavery. Their host, Nathan Johnson, proposed the surname Douglass, and Frederick spent three years working on the wharves before leaving in 1841. The city was a stronghold of the antislavery movement, and fugitives passed through it on the Underground Railroad.
- Moby-Dick's chapelHerman Melville sailed from New Bedford on a whaling voyage, and his 1851 novel Moby-Dick begins in this city, with an early scene set in the Seamen's Bethel. That chapel for sailors, finished in 1832 on Johnny Cake Hill, still stands. Since 1996 it has been part of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, along with the Whaling Museum and the blocks around them, 34 acres in all.
- A Madeiran feast since 1915Whaling had drawn workers from Portugal, the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde to New Bedford. In 1915 four immigrants from Madeira started the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, and it is still held every August at Madeira Field. Its organizers bill it as the world's biggest celebration of Portuguese culture.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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