abolition row park

New Bedford's new Abolition Row Park is something everyone on the SouthCoast should experience.

Abolition Row Park in New Bedford may be small, but the message it sends is mighty. That message, of course, is freedom.

New Bedford’s Abolition Row Park – a park highlighting 19th-century anti-slavery advocates who lived in the city – was officially opened on Friday.

Barring any major weather delays, Lee Blake expects the Abolition Row Park to be completed sometime in May.

The events included a pop-up vendors market at the Rotch Jones-Duff House on County Street, sponsored by Buy Black NB.

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.