Flagpole installation inNew Bedford, MA

Flagpoles in New Bedford

A working fishing port and a rebuilding industrial waterfront, with a whaling-era downtown on the hill above both. We cover New Bedford and the Bristol County area, including New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park and the Bedford Landing waterfront district, the State Pier and the Marine Commerce Terminal, the hurricane barrier at the harbour mouth, County Street and the Rotch-Jones-Duff House, Clarks Point, and the Acushnet River waterfront.

Wind here. New Bedford sits in a Buzzards Bay-facing and hurricane-exposed area, which works out to roughly 130 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. No town on this page sizes to a harder number, and New Bedford already knows it: the Army Corps closed the harbour mouth with a hurricane barrier in 1966, after the 1938 storm and Carol in 1954, and the two steel gates in the middle of it still swing shut when a storm is coming. At 130 mph a thin-wall shaft is not a saving, it is a repair, so heavy wall or the Hurricane series is where we start here, with the finish and the fittings settled at the same time rather than added later. Salt does not stop at the waterfront in a port this narrow, and a satin finish a mile up the hill on County Street will chalk just the same. Bedford Landing, the cobbled blocks beside the park, has been a local historic district since 1971, and the Historical Commission looks at anything you can see from the street there. The ground varies more than people expect as well: the hill is till and digs well, while the flats along the Acushnet and behind the piers are fill over soft silt and want the footing designed.

Most of the people who call us from New Bedford are fishing and marine businesses, seafood processors and cold stores, port and offshore wind operations, city facilities and fire houses, hospitals and schools, churches and veterans posts.