Town River Bay
Town River Bay is a bay in Norfolk, Massachusetts. Town River Bay is situated nearby to the hamlet Quincy Neck, as well as near Germantown.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fore River Bridge and United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum.
Fore River Bridge
Bridge
Photo: ArnoldReinhold, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fore River Bridge spans the Weymouth Fore River between Quincy and Weymouth, Massachusetts. The total length of the bridge including the approaches is 2,216 feet.
United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
Museum
Photo: Sswonk, Public domain.
The United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum is a private non-profit museum in Quincy, Massachusetts featuring USS Salem, a heavy cruiser docked at the former Fore River Shipyard where she was laid down in 1945.
Fore River Generating Station
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Fore River Generating Station is a power plant operated by Calpine Corporation since 2014 alongside Weymouth Fore River in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Germantown and Adams Shore.
Germantown
Hamlet
Germantown is a primarily residential neighborhood in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. The neighborhood is located on a peninsula surrounded by Town River bay on the west and Rock Island Cove on the east.
Adams Shore
Hamlet
Adams Shore is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is located on the shore of Quincy Bay at the entrance to the Hough's Neck peninsula. It is bordered on the north by Quincy Bay, on the east by the Hough's Neck neighborhood, on the south by Town River Bay and on the west by the Merrymount neighborhood.
Quincy
Photo: Sswonk, Public domain.
Quincy is in Massachusetts. Quincy was the birthplace of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. United States Declaration of Independence signer and first Massachusetts governor John Hancock was also born here.
Town River Bay
- Type: Bay
- Address: MA
- Category: body of water
- Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.24788° or 42° 14′ 52″ northLongitude
-70.96477° or 70° 57′ 53″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87JF62XP+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 368984432OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
4953215
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Satellite Map
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