Editing New Bedford, Massachusetts (section)

===Establishments===
In 1847, the New Bedford Horticultural Society was begun by James Arnold.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newbedford.com/chrono.html|title=History of New Bedford|website=www.newbedford.com|access-date=March 1, 2013|archive-date=March 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313074705/http://www.newbedford.com/chrono.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Ash Street Jail]], which houses inmates from Bristol County, is located in New Bedford. It opened in 1829 and is the oldest continuously operating jail in the United States.<ref>[http://blogs.southcoasttoday.com/new-bedford-crime/2011/10/05/new-bedfords-ash-street-jail/ "New Bedford's Ash Street Jail"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015125528/http://blogs.southcoasttoday.com/new-bedford-crime/2011/10/05/new-bedfords-ash-street-jail/ |date=October 15, 2013 }}, ''South Coast Today'' blog, October 5, 2011</ref>

[[Fort Taber]] and Fort Rodman (also called the "Fort at Clark's Point") were built during the American Civil War and are now in Fort Taber Park. Both forts are often called Fort Taber, including in some references.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weaver II |first1=John R. |title=A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867 |pages=92–94, 103 |publisher=Redoubt Press |location=McLean, VA |year=2001 |isbn=1-57510-069-X}}</ref>