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Palmers Island and Lighthouse

This post is with shots from a walk Lulu and I did last year, and came about on accident in a way I was looking through my recent photos and clicked on last year all be it as an accident and I saw the first shot I shared on this post, and I remembered that walk and decided to edit a few photos for this post
On one of our walks on the Harbor Walk in New Bedford last year we came across a spot where you could walk across a small bit of water to get to this view

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Its a little island called Palmers Island and here is some info I found online about it.

It is named ater an original settler of Old Dartmouth, William Palmer, and apparently has a dark history which began when it served as an internment camp during the King Philip’s War in the mid-1670s. This sort of set the tone for the coming years when in its heyday, Palmer’s Island was a very popular destination for what was referred to as a “pleasure resort.” Which is kind of like calling a garbage man a waste management specialist – many locals preferred to call it a whorehouse or drug den.
The island itself is about 6 Acres, and all the structures on the island were destroyed in a hurricane in 38.
Quite an interesting history I knew nothing about when we ventured on to it

But from on the Island you can see the Lighthouse quite well

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Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble. It was discontinued when the harbor's hurricane barrier was built in the early 1960s, as its location immediately north of the barrier was no longer an outlying danger and there are lights on either side of the barrier opening.

and also nice views across the water

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