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Seamen's Bethel
Local’s take
The chapel from Moby-Dick. Yes, that one. Behave.
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael passes through New Bedford before shipping out, and Seamen’s Bethel is the chapel from the book. Herman Melville himself shipped out on the whaler Acushnet in 1841.
15 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740
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