September 2, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff This barn at 32 Middle Street has had an interesting history. It was built as a boy’s school in 1829 at Hingham Centre. In 1861, it was moved aside and transformed into an Armory where, under Captain Luther Stephenson’s direction it was used to train militia for the …
August 26, 2026 Submitted By Geri Duff In 1846 the Town of Hingham built three identical fire houses and named them after the handtub inside: Extinguisher at the Harbor, Torrent at West Hingham and Constitution at South Hingham. Today the Extinguisher House is part of the Sons of Italy on Chief Justice Cushing Hwy., the …
August 19, 2026 By Geri Duff This Hingham Square scene is from the 1940s. The Comet was a diesel-electric streamliner built in 1935. It held 160 passengers and ran between Boston and Rhode Island. At the start of WWII and because of increased rail travel larger trains were needed on the main lines. The three …
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 …
