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It encompasses the earliest streets laid out in Hingham at the time of its founding in 1635, covering more than 300 years of development and a cross section of Hingham's architectural history. It includes some of the town's oldest buildings, including most notably the Old Ship Church and the General Benjamin Lincoln House , both National ...
Hingham town clerk and magistrate Daniel Cushing (1618–1699) was granted a plot of land from the town in 1665, and later built a house there for his son Peter (Cushing) sometime in 1678. [2] [3] There is "clear and visible" architectural evidence in the two front chambers and attic that the house was originally one-and-a-half stories high. [2]
December 14, 1978 (105 Alden St. Duxbury: 3: Bartlett–Russell–Hedge House: Bartlett–Russell–Hedge House: April 30, 1976 (32 Court St. Plymouth: 4: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage
Hingham (/ ˈ h ɪ ŋ ə m / HING-əm) is a town in northern Plymouth County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Part of the Greater Boston region, it is located on the South Shore of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. [5] Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor.
The South Hingham Historic District is a historic district roughly along Main St., from Cushing St. to Tower Brook Road in Hingham, Massachusetts.This area of Main Street is predominantly residential, and is distinctive for its boulevard-like character, which was envisioned in town planning documents as early as the late 17th century.
Jacob Thaxter House in Hingham. 2000 census ... Green Harbor: CDP $47,993 $128,828 ... Massachusetts. Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. ...
Elisha Leavitt (1714–1790) was a Hingham, Massachusetts, Loyalist landowner who owned several islands in Boston Harbor. During the Siege of Boston in 1775, Leavitt encouraged British forces to use one of his islands to gather hay for their horses, triggering one of the first skirmishes of the American War of Independence , The Battle of Grape ...
Ragged Island Hingham Ma. Ragged Island is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.The island has a permanent size of 4 acres (16,000 m 2), and it is composed of Roxbury puddingstone (pebbles embedded in finer-grained cement) which rises to a height of 30 feet (9.1 m) above sea level.