New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at sea from whale carcasses and brought in by a fleet of hundreds of whaling ships.
More than 170 years later New Bedford aspires to light the world again, in a different relationship with the sea, as the offshore wind industry arrives here.
