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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cup winners. Southward from Fall River is Tiverton, another picturesqueplace and one of popular resort, it also being visited by summercolonsits from all parts of the United States, and southward,eighteen miles from Fall River is Newport the world famous sum-mer resort of the fashionables of this country. Thirteen miles eastward from Fall River is New Bedford, oncethe greatest whaling port and probably at this date sending out asmany whaling fleets as any other city. Still further east are found Marion, Mattapoiset, the MilesStandish Monument, and finally the grand old Plymouth Rock.Northward from Fall River only forty-nine miles distant is Boston;and New York City is one nights ride by boat, or 183 milessouth. Travel in whatever direction one will from Fall River, heis continually passing from one place of interest to another. In-deed, Where eer we tread, tis haunted, holy ground, made soby the hand of nature, the history of Puritan ancestry, and the legends of Indian aborigines. 40
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COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES. The commercial advantages of Fall River, while natural andunsurpassed, remain comparatively undeveloped; manufacturinginterests having first attracted the attention of the people, com-mercial development became of secondary and incidental consid-eration—rather a result indeed, of their manufacturing importance,and yet Fall River ranks well up as a port of entry in the UnitedStates. Possessing the best land locked harbor upon the Atlantic coast,with wharfage possibilities extending from Somerset Bridge to theTiverton Fisheries, with depth and expanse of bay and river, itseems surprising that Fall River has not long since developed aninternational commercial relation of much larger volume than ityet possesses. Its manufacturers however, early acquired the habit of depend-ing upon the jobbing houses and agencies of New York City andthe latter continues to be the point of export for the products ofthis city, to all parts of the world. As early as 1827 Col. Richmon

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