New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Complex

New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Complex is a historic district at 180 MacAuthur Drive in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

The complex was built in 1856 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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    The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    one pale woman all alone,
    The daylight kissing her wan hair,
    Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
    With lips of flame and heart of stone.
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    Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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    ness too much light breeds; but unmoved thou
    Of force must one, and forc’d but one allow;
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