From Cape Verde to New Bedford - New Bedford, MA, USA
Posted by: Metro2
N 41° 38.032 W 070° 55.257
19T E 339999 N 4610908
Many Cape Verde immigrants came through this port to work in the whaling industry.
Waymark Code: WMMXKY
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2014
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This sign is located on the waterfront near the Ernestina...a ship referred to on the sign which reads:
"From Cape Verde to New Bedford
For many Cape Verde Islanders, the New bedford
wharf area was the first view of America. At the height
of immegration between 1900 and 1921, more than
a dozen packet boats ran between Cape Verde
and New Bedford, the main port of entry. Packet boats
carried freights and passengers on a regular schedule.
After World War II, as air travel increased, Ernestina became
one of only two vessels making the regular trip to Cape
Verde. The schooner continued to do so - often without
engine or radio- until 1965. She was the last sailing ship to
bring immigrants across the Atlantic to the United States.
Many of those Cape Verdeans - people of Portuguese and
African descent still live in the New Bedford area."
Read more about the ship which originally known as the Effie M. Morrissey at (
visit link)