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Pembroke is an historic town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Pembroke is a South Shore suburb of the Boston metropolitan area. The town is located approximately halfway between Boston and Cape Cod. The town is considered rural in character, with pockets of suburban neighborhoods.
Silver Lake is a 640-acre (2.6 km 2) lake in Pembroke, Kingston, and Plympton, Massachusetts, south of Route 27 and east of Route 36. The Pembroke/Plympton town line is entirely within the lake, and a portion of the western shoreline of the lake is the town line with Halifax. It used to be called the Jones River Pond, but its name was changed ...
North Pembroke is located at (42.095518, -70.777921 [ 3 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 11.4 km 2 (4.4 mi 2 ), all land.
Originally under the care of the Pilgrim Society, it was given to the Massachusetts government in 2001. [8] It and Plymouth Rock constitute the Pilgrim Memorial State Park. Although intended as national in scope, the Forefathers Monument is not a federal "National Monument" as understood today from the Antiquities Act of 1906.
Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore.The population was 25,825 at the 2020 census. [2]It includes the census-designated places (CDPs) of Marshfield, Marshfield Hills, Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, and Cedar Crest, and shares the Green Harbor CDP with the town of Duxbury.
The first Pilgrim burial ground was on nearby Cole's Hill in 1620-21. [3] Originally, the Pilgrims constructed a fort on top of Burial Hill in 1621-22 (a reconstruction exists in nearby Plimoth Plantation). [4] The Burial Hill fort also served as a meeting house for the colony and for the First Parish Church until 1677. [4]
Pembroke's middle school is located on Rte. 27, and was the Silver Lake Junior High School from 1968 to 1991, when the district's middle school shifted to the Learning Lane building. Upon Pembroke's secession from the Silver Lake district in 2004, the town repurchased the property, establishing it as the new Pembroke Community Middle School.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) is a closed nuclear power plant in Massachusetts in the Manomet section of Plymouth on Cape Cod Bay, south of the tip of Rocky Point and north of Priscilla Beach. Like many similar plants, it was constructed by Bechtel , and was powered by a General Electric BWR 3 boiling water reactor inside of a Mark 1 ...