Paragon Park

Paragon Park was an amusement park located on Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. It opened in 1905 and closed in 1984.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Paragon Park Carousel and Nantasket Junction station.

Paragon Park Carousel

Carousel

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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

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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 2 miles south of Paragon Park.

Langlee Island

Park

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Langlee Island or Langley Island is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island has a permanent size of 4 acres, and is composed of a massing of Roxbury puddingstone which rises to a height of 40 feet above sea level. Langlee Island is situated 1½ miles west of Paragon Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hingham and Cohasset.

Hingham

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

Cohasset

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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.

Hull

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Hull is a town in Massachusetts in the South Shore region. The town is a series of islands connected by sandbars and causeways that comprise the Nantasket peninsula. The beaches are among the best in New England with fine gray sands.

Paragon Park

Type: Park
Description: former amusement park located on Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts, United States
Category: amusement park
Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.26899° or 42° 16′ 8″ north

Longitude

-70.85699° or 70° 51′ 25″ west

Open location code

87JF749V+H6

GeoNames ID

4946675

Wikidata ID

Q7134599

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Egyptian Arabic—“Paragon Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Paragon Park”
Chinese: “百丽宫公园”
Egyptian Arabic: “پاراجون پارك”

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