12 DOWNTOWN NEW BEDFORD Lighting the Way: Historic Women of the South Coast Walking Tour 11 8 New Bedford Whaling Museum Hetty Green Birthplace ALLEN ST HAWTHORN ST 1 14 18 Johnny Cake Hill 43 Seventh St. COUNTY ST COUNTY ST COUNTY ST 10 Emily Howland Bourne Lydia Grinnell Brown Hetty Green 14 15 16 9 Edith Guerrier 15 Historic Home of Phebe Hart Mendall SEVENTH ST The Bedford Merchant 35 Seventh St. 13 2 CHERRY ST CHERRY 17 18 28 William St. Phebe Mendall AMPLIFYING HISTORY Eliza Bierstadt (Her house backed up to the Homer House on County Street) SIXTH ST SIXTH ST SIXTH ST SIXTH ST WILLIAM ST SIXTH ST SCHOOL ST ELM ST by lifting women’s voices and inspiring UNION ST New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park Nathan and Polly Johnson House SPRING ST MIDDLE ST SCHOOL ST WALNUT ST RUSSELL ST RUSSELL BEDFORD ST BEDFORD MADISON ST 19 3 20 7 6 16 generations to come 33 William St. 21 Seventh St. Annie Ricketson Polly Johnson PLEASANT ST PLEASANT ST PLEASANT ST PLEASANT ST PLEASANT ST Lighting the Way: Historic Women of the SouthCoast 4 Location near Rosetta Douglass Birthplace 17 Abolition Row Park explores the historical impact of women from diverse 157 Elm St., about 7 blocks west of Elm Street Parking Garage, Corner of Seventh and Spring Streets 51 Elm St. cultural and ethnic backgrounds who shaped their Amelia Piper 22 Rosetta Douglass (site of plaque) SouthCoast communities, the nation, and the world. 18 Friends Meeting House PURCHASE ST PURCHASE ST PURCHASE ST PURCHASE ST PURCHASE ST Lighting the Way is unearthing remarkable stories of 5 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Plaza 83 Spring St. ELM ST UNION ST SPRING ST MIDDLE ST WALNUT ST SCHOOL ST WILLIAM ST RUSSELL ST RUSSELL Corner of William St. and Acushnet Ave., BEDFORD ST BEDFORD women’s callings that required grit, tenacity, and MADISON ST 21 Rachel Howland WING’S COURT and nearby mural at 41 William St. enduring commitment to their families, careers Labor Mural 23 P Martha Bush Gray 19 and communities. Sixth and Spring Streets ACUSHNET AVE ACUSHNET AVE ACUSHNET AVE ACUSHNETVE AVE ACUSHNET AVE 6 New Bedford City Hall Margaret Ryckebusch This Lighting the Way Walking Trail Map guides you 133 William St. CUSTOM HOUSE Historic Location of Helen Ellis’ Bookstore 5 20 to locations associated with inspiring women. Learn the SQUARE Rosalind Poll Brooker Jennie Horne 24 4 P “The Whaler Book Shop” stories of educators, philanthropists, abolitionists, New Bedford Free Public Library 7 106 School St. SECOND ST SECOND ST SECOND ST SECOND ST SECOND ST 613 Pleasant St. crusaders for social justice, investors, confectioners, ELM ST 3 Helen Elizabeth Ellis WILLIAM ST Sylvia Ann Howland (marble tablet for her philanthropy) sister sailors, and millworkers as you walk through 26 2 21 Zeiterion Performing Arts Center downtown New Bedford. New Bedford Public Schools JOHNNY CAKE HILL BETHEL ST 8 684 Purchase St. WW 455 County St. (former site of New Bedford High School) Download the Lighting the Way app from the Apple Sarah Rodman Scudder Ashley Delano 1 Elizabeth Carter Brooks Rosamond Guinn Store or Google Play to follow the trail on your 25 Cape Verdean American Veterans Association N. WATER ST Marial Harper Mary Hudson Onley 22 mobile device. ELM ST Memorial Hall UNION ST Mary Elizabeth Hartley SCHOOL ST 561 Purchase St. Visit www.historicwomensouthcoast.org to read full 9 Stephen Taber House 446 County St. Valentina Almeida 195 profiles of all the historic SouthCoast women featured in CENTRE ST . RODMAN ST NN ROSE ALLEY E HAMILTON ST HAMILTON T To R Cape Verdean Ultramarine Band Club Lighting the Way and to learn about the project’s Elizabeth Taber 23 SS FRONT ST (pedestrian only) 185 Acushnet Ave. Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum different initiatives: ROUTE 18 (JFK BOULEVARD) 10 396 County St. Archangela Fortes • A school curriculum framework that supports MAC ARTHUR DR R Location near Marie Equi Birthplace crossing T Amelia Jones E 24 . educators to bring these stories into the classroom 6 South Second and Union Streets crossing T Grinnell Mansion and provide useful resources. O 11 F 379 County St. Marie Equi A C EE I O R H • Lighting the Way will mark the 2020 centennial A Cornelia Grinnell Harriet Jacobs A L Casa dos Botes Discovery Center S V P 25 T PIER 3 E ISHMAEL O E HOMER’S WHARF N N. Water St. or 18 Johnny Cake Hill of the 19th Amendment and women’s right to vote LEONARD’S WHARF A C John Briggs House at New Bedford Pest Control Please note: Map is not to scale & K M 12 E P S Mary Vermette with a traveling exhibit, riveting speakers, T 113 Allen St. O H P P I P I ’S LANDING STATE PIER E E P Martha Bailey Briggs S city-wide events in New Bedford, public art, R Mariners’ Home I I E 26 S R L 15 Johnny Cake Hill and other engaging programs. A Historic Home of Mary Rotch FERRY TERMINAL FISH ISLAND N 13 D 47 South Sixth St., (rear, green vinyl-sided house behind Sarah Rotch Arnold Our Lady of Assumption Church) POPES ISLAND Mary Rotch MARINA Marial Harper 8 New Bedford Public Schools Continued New Bedford educator Marial Harper (1934-2016) positively impacted numerous lives at New Bedford High School, from where 1 2 4 6 7 she graduated in 1952, and was the first woman and minority to be appointed a Housemaster there. Of Mashpee Wampanoag and Cape Verdean descent, she Emily Howland Bourne Eliza Bierstadt Rosetta Douglass Rosalind Poll Brooker Sylvia Ann Howland became active with the Mashpee Wampanoag as a member New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford Merchant Location near Rosetta Douglass Birthplace City Hall New Bedford Free Public Library of its Council of Elders in her retirement. Emily Howland Bourne (1835-1922) showed Active in the local 19th-century art community Abolitionist and social reformer Rosetta Rosalind Poll Brooker (1928-2016) was a Once described as the wealthiest woman in the same careful planning in her inspired of William Street, New Bedford’s “Gallery Row,” Douglass (1839-1906) continued a family legacy trailblazer for women in the fields of law and New Bedford, philanthropist Sylvia Ann Mary Elizabeth Hartley philanthropy that her father Jonathan showed Eliza Bierstadt (1833-1896) was likely America’s of activism that began in New Bedford with her politics. In spite of polio and post-polio Howland (1806-1865) provided a legacy that New Bedford Public Schools as one of New Bedford’s most successful first female art dealer. Eliza’s work started parents, Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass. syndrome, Rosalind overcame every obstacle benefited not only family members, caretakers, A U.S. military veteran with overseas tours whaling merchants. She administered her wealth with a in New Bedford at the Ellis Art Gallery (now The Bedford Rosetta delivered her most notable speech, a paper entitled to become a tenacious lawyer and dedicated public servant. and charitable organizations, but also the residents of New during three wars, Lieutenant Colonel Mary conscience that both honored her family and enriched its Merchant) and later expanded with her move to Niagara “Anna Murray Douglass – My Mother as I Recall Her,” as an After her 1969 election to New Bedford’s City Council, Rosalind Bedford through trusts to support education and business. Elizabeth Hartley (1920-1999) served in the communities. Emily gifted the Jonathan Bourne Whaling Falls, New York, where she added Hudson River artists’ works acknowledgement of the essential part that Anna played in stated, “I’m not going down in history, I’m going up.” Rosalind Upon her death in 1865, approximately half of her estate was Army Nurse Corps for 25 years, from 1942 to Museum and its half-scale model of the whaling bark Lagoda to her stock. Correspondence to Eliza from several artists Frederick’s rise to becoming a renowned author and orator. rose up throughout her life and brought other women up with distributed to her niece Hetty Robinson Green. A marble tablet 1967. A graduate of both New Bedford High School and St. to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society in her father’s memory, and friends reveal her savvy business skills, her knowledge Rosetta was born at 157 Elm Street, about seven blocks her. In 2005, a new public meeting room in New Bedford City in New Bedford Free Public Library commemorates Sylvia’s Luke’s Training School for Nurses, Lt. Col. Hartley contributed preserving the history of the waning whaling industry for of art supplies, and a busy social life. west of here. Hall was named in her honor. gift of $200,000 to the city of New Bedford. to the evolution in trauma and casualty care that was future generations. spearheaded by the U.S. Army. Jennie Horne Lydia Grinnell Brown City Hall Rosamond Guinn New Bedford Whaling Museum The War on Poverty initiatives of the 1960s New Bedford Public Schools New Bedford’s Lydia Grinnell Brown had a dedicated New Bedford foot soldier in The first African American woman to become (1895-1945) became the first African American Jennie Horne (1920-1998). Within ONBOARD a registered pharmacist in southeastern graduate of Simmons College in Boston. Her 3 5 (Organized New Bedford Opportunity And 8 Massachusetts, Rosamond Alice Guinn dedication to academic excellence and Resource Development), Jennie rose up to become contact (1892-1923) graduated from New Bedford High commitment to the study of languages led to her becoming a worker and then director of the West Central Community School and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.