Historic Sites in Cohasset, MA

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On this site 3,514 tons of Quincy granite were hewn into 1,079 dovetailed blocks whose final weight totalled 2,367 to...

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The Scituate Historical Society is a South Shore leader in local history. For years it has been in the forefron...

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World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was killed in action. He served as a Private in the Uni...

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First Meeting House raised shortly after the gathering of the church in 1635 within a palisade. First Burying Ground,...

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During the war between the states, 1861-1865 more than a thousand Confederates were imprisoned here of whom thirteen ...

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Rev. John Lothrop Rev. Charles Chauncey Rev. Henry Dunster Rev. Nicholas Baker Pastors 1635 1679

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Home of the Scituate Historical Society on land granted to Richard Garrett prior to 1646. Zephanian Cudworth built th...

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A portion of the house built by John Williams in 1634 is incorporated in the present house. It was a "garrison" or...

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Writer, Social Reformer. The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an antislavery novel of such power that it is cited...

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Dedicated July 14th by the Republic of France and the people of Hull in celebration of the United States of America b...

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A unique historical site in that its construction spans nearly three centuries. Five generations of the Mann family l...

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Despite the prison's island location, a few Civil War prisoners tried to escape-in the end, always unsuccessfully. Am...

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Settled by Mathew Gannett in 1651.

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse