North Cohasset

North Cohasset is a hamlet in Town of Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts. North Cohasset is situated nearby to the hamlet Atlantic, as well as near Straits Pond.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cohasset station and Paragon Park Carousel.

Cohasset station

Railway station

Photo: Pottewa, Public domain.

Cohasset station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Cohasset, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. It is located off Chief Justice Cushing Highway west of downtown Cohasset.

The Paragon Park Carousel is a historic carousel at 1 Wharf Avenue in Hull, Massachusetts. Built in 1928 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, it is one of the state's only surviving four-wide carousels, and is the only surviving element of the Paragon Park amusement park.

Nantasket Junction station

Railway station

Photo: Pottewa, Public domain.

Nantasket Junction station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Hingham, Massachusetts. It serves the Greenbush Line. It is located off Chief Justice Cushing Highway east of downtown Hingham. Nantasket Junction station is situated 1½ miles southwest of North Cohasset.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cohasset and Hingham.

Cohasset

Photo: Wwoods, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cohasset is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The town, which split off from Hingham in 1770, derives its name from the Massachusett word "Conahasset". It is an exclave of Norfolk County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,381.

Hingham

Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.

Hingham is a coastal town in the South Shore region of Massachusetts about 15 miles south of Boston.

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. As of the 2020 census, North Scituate had a population of 5,414. It was formerly known as Gannet Corner. North Scituate is situated 4 miles southeast of North Cohasset.

North Cohasset

Type: Hamlet
Also known as: “Nantasket”
Category: locality
Location: Town of Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.25693° or 42° 15′ 25″ north

Longitude

-70.83904° or 70° 50′ 21″ west

Elevation

69 feet (21 metres)

Open location code

87JF7546+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158818547

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4945589

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