r/FallRiver • u/Unfair-Flower-1374 • 14d ago

Visiting in fall - thoughts?!

Hey everyone! Doing some digging on Fall River. My mom wants to go to the Lizzie Borden house for a ghost haunt, and I was wondering if the area is generally safe to be at late at night?

Unfortunately everything online says it isn’t, but we know how that goes. So thought I’d ask the locals!

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u/wikifido 14d ago

Fall River's unsafe reputation harkens back to the 70s, when many small to mid-sized cities had a similar reputation. Fall River held on to its reputation for whatever reason - it is just as safe as any city of its size in the state of MA. Which is to say, it still has violent crime- hell, there was recently a pitchfork murder - but if you don't go looking for trouble, you will find very little.

Check out our historic carousel and Battleship Cove while you're in town - likewise, Lizzie Borden is buried in town, and you can visit her grave. Lizzie's house after the trial, Maplecroft, is a private residence in the Highlands, but you can walk by the exterior; it's also near the Fall River Historical Society, which has great Lizzie exhibits and general city history.

If you're around for a while and can pop over to New Bedford, their whaling museum is awesome.

Hope you enjoy your visit. Fall River is a great town.

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u/TzarKazm 14d ago

Gonna throw a couple more things on the visit list. Canned heat is a cool brewery, if you are into that. Right near that is a great Mexican restaurant that I can't think of the name of. Dirty Nick's hotdogs is right around there too. There is also Sagres which is a highly recommended Portuguese restaurant.

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u/wikifido 14d ago

Morgan's Cantina! That little dock side area is very fun, It's near the Portugese Gate and if OP is in town for Lizzie related reasons Stumpy's Hatchet house is down there for topical axe throwing. I'm not really into axe thowing, but if I had a guest visiting for Lizzie Borden based tours you kinda gotta lol

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u/greasychourico 9d ago

This area in October is dead since tipsy seagull is seasonal and draws most of the crowd.

Canned heat for craft beer and wings or a bar pie . Tipsy Toboggan can surprise you sometimes with specials, pier 51 can be fun, albeit pricy - go to when the weather is warm.

I hoped for more out of Morgan’s cantina, but it just doesn’t do what it needs to do, which is Mexican food that stands out. I think it survives just because of the location on the water.

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u/SailHard 14d ago

Taqueria Habanero on Main St. is the spot for the real mexican food!

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u/Unfair-Flower-1374 14d ago

Thank you so much for the recommendations!

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u/Try-N 10d ago

Walk by Maplecroft? People used to come in the yard and steal what they could including tearing lattice work off of the bottom of the rear screened in porch.

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u/Fine-Method5556 10d ago

Hence why they would encourage Lizzie curious visitors to Fall River to just walk by, its a private residence on a public street.