October 28, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff This photo is from Jim Kimball’s photo album. According to Kimball, Herb Beal’s Hingham Fish Market carried a full line of fish, clams, and lobsters and rented boats for smelt fishing. The original building was constructed in 1825. In 1875, a fire was discovered at the rear of …
October 20, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff This was the first public library building in Hingham. Up until 1869, the people of Hingham borrowed their books from “Social Libraries,” which were located in shops and people’s homes. There was one at Hingham Centre, two in South Hingham, and The Circulating Library, owned by Caleb Gill, …
October 14, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff In the 1940s, Hingham built three brick fire stations. The older wooden stations were used by the town for a number of years and then sold off. James Gordon bought the 1842 Extinguisher firehouse and moved it from the Harbor area to the Sons of Italy. It almost …
October 7, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff In the late 1800s families from Northern Europe began to settle in Hingham. An 1894 Business directory lists Styze Damstra as an employee of W. W. Blackmar of Martin’s Lane which we know as the World’s End Dairy Farm. Mr. Damstra went on to own his own Dairy …
September 30, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff This train on the South Shore Rail Line is crossing over Hingham’s Mill Pond (which is now the Station Street parking lot) on its way from Cohasset to Boston via North Braintree. The day the line opened, January 1, 1849, a longer train took Dignitaries and the Press …
September 23, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff Here is one of Hingham’s early photographers, William Hudson, who lived on North Street. He started out using glass plates for his work until the late 1880s. After that he used a small camera which after you took your pictures on a roll of film, you would send …
September 16, 2026 Submitted By Hingham’s “Spirits of ‘76” to Screen at Loring Hall! On Sunday, September 20 at noon, Loring Hall in Hingham Square presents the premiere of “Spirits of ‘76,” a special documentary produced by Harbor Media as part of Hingham’s 250th celebrations. Eileen McIntyre, an active member of Friends of Old Ship …
September 16, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff William L. Foster was first elected to the Board of Hingham Selectmen in 1905 and served continuously in that office until his retirement in 1945 at the age of 80. On top of that for a time (in 1906) he served on the Board of Assessors and the …
September 11, 2026 Provided by Hingham Public Library Join us for an Evening with the Author — Hingham’s town historian, James B. Conroy –Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 7 to 8:45 p.m. in the Whiton Room of the Hingham Public Library. Conroy will talk about his new book, “Hingham in the American Revolution: Not the gift …
September 9, 2026 By Geri Duff When you look at this house today at 162 Main Street, think about how well it has held up to nature’s fury. During the Hurricane of 1938, on September 21, one of the magnificent Elm trees that lined the roadway split in two, with that half landing on Bette …
