The park at Seventh and Spring will honor city residents who were members of the anti-slavery movement during the 1800s and lived in that neighborhood.
NEW BEDFORD — A vacant lot that once housed two historic homes in New Bedford's Abolition Row neighborhood is springing back to life with new purpose.
The City of New Bedford and the New Bedford Historical Society are creating Abolition Row Park on the site, located at the corner of Seventh and Spring Streets...
On Thursday, the public is invited to discuss design plans for a new park planned at the site of two former historic homes in New Bedford that will recognize and celebrate some of the city's most forward-thinking residents.
The park, which will be called Abolition Row Park, will celebrate the 19th-century abolitionists that lived in 19 houses in the four blocks around the park's location at the co