August 12, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff When Michael Shilhan proposed a project documenting Hingham through historical photographs, he was given access to many different collections of photos from both private and public sources. He did not realize that when he captured the charm of early Hingham, he also showed that while the physical changed, …
July 29, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff This is the clubhouse of the Crow Point Golf Club which was a nine-hole course on the northeast bluff of Paige Hill behind Howe Street in Crow Point. Melville Garden, the amusement park that took up most of Crow Point, had shut down in 1896. After that the …
July 23, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff As part of the Melville Garden amusement complex, on July 18, 1887, Samuel Downer opened a shore resort hotel called The Rose Standish with 40 rooms. Owing to the popularity of the surrounding Melville Garden amusement park and the nearby steamboat landing which brought in families from Boston …
July 15, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff John Hardy Henderson dives from Robert Terry’s shoulders steadied by Howard Henderson behind Harry Smith; next, Jack Good. In the group are Wm I. Nichols, John Pyne, James Ramsey, David Fanning, Francis Barrett, Jack Hooper Photo taken by Wm. B. Fearing, Hingham Bathing Beach, August 1917. This photo …
July 8, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff This pond is now called Cushing Pond. In the late 1800s, around the pond and the surrounding woods, people would ice skate on the pond in the winter, picnic in the woods in the warmer months, and during the summer months, many would go swimming. These boys are …
July 1, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff Richard Caldwell produced a collection of pictures he took of Hingham about 1970. He captioned this photo he took at the July 4 th Parade of George Bibby as “an old time Hinghamite and an amateur photographer.” Mr. Bibby, who lived on Pond Street, was a Meter Reader …
June 24, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff In the fall of 1934, the Hingham Committee on the Purchase of New Fire Apparatus recommended that Hingham buy an Ahrens-Fox pumper, Model N.T. It was delivered June 14, 1935, tested by the New England Board of Fire Underwriters and placed in service at Central Fire on Short …
June 19, 2026 Submitted And Photo By Geri Duff The Hingham Committee for National Safety worked hard during WWII to warn citizens of an impending attack by either airplanes or ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Sirens like the one on this pole peeking over the roof of 55 Kimball Beach Road were scattered about town …
June 10, 2026 Submitted And Photo By Geri Duff Hingham Cordage Company offices were at numbers 31 and 33 Commercial Street in Boston, the factory started by the Fearing and Whiton families was on Central Street in Hingham where Hingham Town Hall stands today. In 1865, there was a fire that destroyed most of the …
June 3, 2026 Submitted And Photo By Geri Duff In the 1893 History of Hingham, Sivret’s Tavern (also known as the Davis – Whiting Tavern) was described as a long house situated as being almost the last building on Main Street before reaching the boundary line West Scituate (now Norwell) and Hingham. Owner James William …
