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About a half mile from my house there is a public walking trail through a recently completed wetlands restoration project. Marsh Island (not really an island) is on the Fairhaven shore of the Acushnet River, across the harbor from New Bedford, MA. The property is co-owned by the Buzzard's Bay Coalition and the Fairhaven-Acushnet Land Trust.
#Nature #Wetlands #Conservation #Walking #Massachusetts #FairhavenMA #NewBedfordHarbor
John Paul Jones was an officer on the Alfred in 1776 when the ship attacked New Providence in the Bahamas capturing a number of cannon and a supply of gunpowder. When the building of Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven, MA, was completed in 1777 it was outfitted with some of the captured guns. This one survived a British raid on the harbor in 1778, when the fort was captured. It is now referred to as the "John Paul Jones cannon."
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