Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, US. It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse. The light was built in 1881, and added to the National Register of Historic Places as Borden Flats Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001528.
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The City of Taunton was a freight sidepaddle steamship that sailed for the Fall River Line. She was built in 1892 in Chelsea, Massachusetts by the Montgomery & Howard shipyard. Her wreckage still lies on the shores of Mount Hope Bay in Somerset, Massachusetts, and is easily visible at low tide.
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The A.B. Chace Rowhouses is a historic apartment building located at 655-685 Middle Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was constructed circa 1877 for Arnold B. Chace, son of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, a prominent Rhode Island abolitionist and reformer.
The red brick rowhouse is unusual for Fall River, which is more typically dominated by triple-decker houses. The Chace Rowhouse is located along the perimeter of Kennedy Park, not far from the historic St. Anne's Church complex.
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The Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge, also known as the Braga Bridge, or simply, The Braga, is a through truss bridge that carries Interstate 195 over the Taunton River between the town of Somerset and the city of Fall River, near the mouth of the Quequechan River at the confluence with Mount Hope Bay. The Braga Bridge spans 1.25 miles and is one of the longest bridges in Massachusetts. Opened to traffic on April 15, 1966, it provides an important link between Providence, Rhode Island, Fall River, New Bedford, and Cape Cod.
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The Ariadne J. and Mary A. Borden House is a historic house located at 92 Globe Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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Motor torpedo boat PT-617, also known as Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents the United States's most heavily used, highly favored, and combat-tested PT boat type in World War II." She is a museum ship at the PT Boat Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. The 80-foot Elco type boat was the predominant type and is the same type as the famous PT-109 commanded by John F. Kennedy; the 78-foot "Higgins" boat is the other type.
PT-617 was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.