Minots Ledge
Minots Ledge, sometimes appearing as Minot's Ledge and also known as the Cohasset Rocks, is a reef off the harbor of Cohasset, Massachusetts, 15 miles southeast of Boston, Massachusetts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minot’s Ledge Light and North Scituate Beach.
Minot’s Ledge Light
Lighthouse
Minot's Ledge Light, officially Minots Ledge Light, is a lighthouse on Minots Ledge, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, Massachusetts, to the southeast of Boston Harbor.
North Scituate Beach
Beach
North Scituate Beach is a beach in North Scituate, Massachusetts. North Scituate Beach is situated 2½ miles south of Minots Ledge.
Josephine M. Hagerty House
House
Photo: Wwoods, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Josephine M. Hagerty House is an historic house at 357 Atlantic Avenue in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Built in 1938, it was the first building in the United States commissioned Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius, who collaborated with Marcel Breuer on its design. Josephine M. Hagerty House is situated 2½ miles west of Minots Ledge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minot and Cohasset.
Minot
Hamlet
Minot is a section of Scituate, Massachusetts. Minot's ZIP Code is 02055. Minot is a beach community in Scituate. It is fondly regarded as the best beach in Scituate. Minot is situated 2 miles south of Minots Ledge.
Cohasset
Photo: Wwoods, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cohasset is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 8,381.
North Scituate
Village
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North Scituate is a census-designated place in the town of Scituate in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,077 at the 2010 census. It was formerly known as Gannet Corner. North Scituate is situated 3½ miles southwest of Minots Ledge.
Minots Ledge
- Type: Reef
- Also known as: “Cohasset Rocks”, “Minot’s Ledge”, and “Minots Ledge Lighthouse”
- Category: landform
- Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.2681° or 42° 16′ 5″ northLongitude
-70.75867° or 70° 45′ 31″ westOpen location code
87JF769R+6GOpenStreetMap ID
way 816347624OpenStreetMap feature
natural=reefGeoNames ID
4944241Wikidata ID
Q6869397
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In Other Languages
“Minots Ledge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Minots Ledge”
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