October 29, 2025 by Geri Duff At one time Hingham was home to several shipbuilding yards. In 1637 the town granted Thomas Turner land on the westerly side of the harbor, a spot that was known as Goose Point, for a shipyard. Ships were also built near Hersey’s Wharf, Souther’s Shipyard, Hall’s shipyard and Keen’s Shipyard to …
October 15, 2025 by Geri Duff In 1851, Master Mason and contractor, Albert Whiting, built a home at 1192 Main Street. His daughter, Henrietta, ran a lending library for the residents of South Hingham here. In 1950 the barn section was converted into a rest home and by 1975 was a dedicated nursing home. The entire building was …
October 8, 2025 by Geri Duff In the “Anthony Standard Business Directory” (a selection of 11 towns in Plymouth County in 1903), Humphrey Bros. of Hingham and East Weymouth, advertised as a wholesale and retail dealer of groceries, meat, fish, coal, hay, grain, feed, poultry food and supplies, hardware and Sherwin-Williams paints. This photo of the Hingham location …
October 1, 2025 Geri Duff The 100th anniversary of the Torrent engine house was held in February of 1926. Inside the engine house, Company Steward William Clinton Griggs, while keeping warm by the stove said: “this is when time glides peacefully and the old stove yields a grateful warmth.” That was the last quiet moment that day. For …
September 25, 2025 by Geri Duff Here is Mr. Robinson preparing to fill a sack with ground corn in the Hingham Grain Mill. The outside of the Hingham Grain Mill has been photographed many times down through the years. So far only a few of the interior have been seen. In 1643 three men, Anthony Eames, Samuel …
September 17, 2025 by Geri Duff This is the 1964 version of the Hingham Yacht Club. The Hingham Yacht Club was born on November 11, 1895 and in 1905 a small club house was built about where the Victory Statue is on the Hingham Waterfront. In 1928, the club members purchased the former steamboat landing on Downer …
September 10, 2025 by Geri Duff This is a rare look inside the Civil Defense Report Center in the basement of Hingham Town Hall in 1942. At that time the Town Offices were at 14 Main St., Hingham Square. Chief Warden Keelah Bouve, Chief Medical Officer Henry Robinson, Chief Engineer T. Clark Perkins, Firefighter C. Warren Lincoln, …
September 3, 2025 by Geri Duff Hingham had several primary schools in town that were very similar. This one was built in 1850. The Fort Hill School at 56 Fort Hill Street is sometimes mistaken for the Canterbury School. Lucy Harden, who lived on North Street, was the teacher here in the late 1800s. Today it is …
August 27, 2025 by Geri Duff This is the Canterbury Street School which was built in 1810 and used as an elementary school until about 1940. It was used as District Wardens Post during WWII. District Wardens were stationed all over Hingham and worked out of the GAR Hall, Gov. Andrew’s House, the police station, the three …
August 20, 2025 by Geri Duff In this photo we see about 45 children and their teacher on the grounds surrounding the first West Grammar School on Thaxter Street. This school was built in 1880 and served the families of West Hingham until the second West School was built sometime in the 1930s. The second school was …
