Duxbury is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately 35 miles to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 2020 census.
Duxbury Town Offices
John Alden House, built c. 1700
Duxbury's beach and residences, c. 1910
The Bluefish River inlet with King Caesar House in the background
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Co
Duxbury, Massachusetts
…thin, hook-shaped strip of land along Duxbury Bay, at the tip of which is Saquish Head in Plymouth. Duxbury is the sixth largest cranberry producer in Massachusetts and has oyster beds and other shellfish. The town has many ponds and bogs throughout. The Back River lies along the western edge of Saquish Neck, and…
The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882). The Pilgrims founded Plymouth in 1620.
In 1646, John Winthrop the Younger established the Saugus Iron Works, which was the first integrated ironworks in North America. It included a blast furnace, forge, rolling mill, shear, slitter and a quarter-ton trip hammer, all of which has been restored and is now a museum.
The Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (cover page shown), also called the Eliot Indian Bible, is the first Bible to have been printed in British North America.
A 1910 painting of the Battle of Lexington