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Mattapoisett

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Mattapoisett

Town in Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts, on Buzzards Bay 10 km/6 mi east of New Bedford; population (2000 est) 3,000. It was settled by Europeans c. 1750 and incorporated in 1857. Formerly a shipbuilding and whaling centre, it is now a resort area. Its name is an American Indian term meaning ‘place of resting’.

The whaling ship Acushnet on which US writer Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, sailed, was built here. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had a summer estate here.



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