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 …
August 13, 2025 Geri Duff One area of Hingham that has changed considerably in the past 100 years is West Hingham. Looking from a home on South Street, near Hersey, you can see that Baker’s Hill on the left horizon is bare, the church was Methodist, and the house at the corner of North and Thaxter Street …
August 6, 2025 Geri Duff Charles H. Marble took this photo of John Burr’s Pond at the corner of Leavitt and Spring Streets in 1885. John Burr was one of many Burrs who lived and worked in the Leavitt Street area working as farmers and coopers. The pond is no longer there but the house in front …
July 30, 2025 by Geri duff The first Thomas Loring left England in 1634 and lived for a short time in Dorchester before moving to Hingham a year later. His house was at the corner of North and Ship Streets. Loring moved to Hull after the fire burned down his house in 1645. Eventually his fifth-great grandson …
