Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor. Its population was 10,072 at the 2020 census. Hull is the smallest town by land area in Plymouth County and the eleventh smallest in the state. However, its population density is nearly four times that of Massachusetts as a whole.
Aerial view of Hull, 2010
View of Nantasket Beach in 1879
Steamer Rose Standish, operating between Boston, Hull and Hingham, 1864
Fort Revere and Allerton, as seen from the fort's water tower observatory
Hingham is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor. The town was named after Hingham, Norfolk, England, and was first settled by English colonists in 1633.
The Old Ship Church, Hingham (Seventeenth-century English Colonial architecture)
Perez Lincoln House, c. 1640, North Street, Hingham
Grave of colonist Josiah Leavitt, Old Ship Burying Ground, Hingham
The Old Ordinary is an early Hingham tavern that was donated to the Hingham Historical Society by Hingham philanthropist Wilmon Brewer.