Lighting the Way Walking Tour - Women of Spring & Seventh Streets

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Hear stories from the lives of historic women who lived and worked on Spring and Seventh Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts. This FREE one-hour tour with experts from the "Lighting the Way Historic Women of the South Coast" project focuses on women such as champion of historic preservation Sarah Ashley Delano, community leaders such as Archangela Fortes and peacemaker Rachel Howland, educator and labor leader Margaret Ryckebusch, abolitionists Polly Johnson and Amelia Piper, entrepreneur Phoebe Mendall, and brilliant business woman and financier Hetty Green. Meet at the New Bedford Whaling Museum at 10 am. The tour ends at 43 Seventh Street - Birthplace of Hetty Green.