Mount Hope Bay

Mount Hope Bay is a tidal estuary located at the mouth of the Taunton River on the Massachusetts and Rhode Island border.

The bay is named after Mount Hope, a small hill located on its western shore in what is now Bristol, Rhode Island.

While many years of sewage and industrial pollution have severely degraded the quality of the shallow waters of the bay, there are currently major efforts underway to clean up and restore it.

The eastern shore of the bay consists of the city of Fall River, Massachusetts and the town of Tiverton, Rhode Island.

Mount Hope Bay contains a 35 foot-deep shipping channel maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of their Fall River Harbor project.

[6] Mount Hope Bay was once part of the Wampanoag Nation, and the site of early events of King Philip's War in 1675.

Mount Hope Bay has played an important part in the industrial history of the city of Fall River, which is located on its eastern shore.