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The Port of New Bedford is a deepwater port located at at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzards Bay, with access to the Atlantic Ocean. It is in the harbor estuary on the southern coast of Massachusetts in New Bedford, Fairhaven and Acushnet.
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- ↑ Acushnet River (Massachusetts) map.jpg. United States Geological Survey, US Department of the Interior. 1893.
- ↑ Kroll, C. Douglas (2002). Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf : first commandant of the Coast Guard. Internet Archive. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-474-6.
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