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Duxbury's Old Town Hall is located among a cluster of municipal and religious facilities on the west side of Tremont Street (Massachusetts Route 3A).It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story frame building, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior.
The Duxbury Free Library is located in the heart of town, next to the John Alden House, and is a member of the Old Colony Library Network. The town also has a highway department, located behind the Town Hall, and a harbormaster, whose office is located next to the Duxbury Yacht Club near Snug Harbor.
The Old Shipbuilder's Historic District is a 287-acre (116 ha) historic district in Duxbury, Massachusetts.The district includes both sides of Washington Street extending from South Duxbury (also known as Hall's Corner) to Powder Point Avenue, including several side streets off of Washington and a small portion of St. George Street and Powder Point Avenue.
The Capt. Gamaliel Bradford House is a historic house in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1807, the house is locally distinctive for its brick side walls and monitor section above the hip roof. [ 2 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The Duxbury Book, 1637–1987. Duxbury, Massachusetts: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc. ISBN 0-941859-00-2. Post, James Otis (1983). A History of the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society 1883-1983. Duxbury, Massachusetts: The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc. OCLC 45906610.
An 1891 visit to her sister in Duxbury led famed 19th-century actress Fanny Davenport to build herself a seaside summer house: Melbourne Hall.
This led to the establishment of Patridge Academy which was built on Tremont Street in Duxbury in 1844. The Academy served as the town's only secondary school until the construction of the first Duxbury High School in 1927. Partridge Academy burned in 1933 and its location is now occupied by the Duxbury Town Offices. [4]
Duxbury is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Duxbury in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,802 at the 2010 census. The population was 1,802 at the 2010 census.