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Scituate

Scituate is a small seacoast town in Plymouth County, south of Cohasset and north of Marshfield in the region. Scituate Harbor is the main town center and is where most of the shops and restaurants are located.
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  • Type: Town with 18,100 residents
  • Description: seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Scituate, MA” and “Scituate, Massachusetts”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Greenbush station and Scituate Light.

Railway station
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is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Scituate, Massachusetts. Located in the Greenbush section of Scituate, it is the terminus of the Greenbush Line.

Lighthouse
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Old also known simply as is a historic lighthouse located on Cedar Point in Scituate, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as .

Historic house
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The , also known as the Old Oaken Bucket Homestead, is a historic house at 47 Old Oaken Bucket Road in Scituate, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this house was built c.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marshfield Hills and North Scituate.

Hamlet
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is a census-designated place in the town of in , , United States. The population was 2,356 at the 2010 census. is situated 3½ miles south of Scituate.

Village
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is a census-designated place in the town of Scituate in , , United States. The population was 5,077 at the 2010 census. It was formerly known as Gannet Corner. is situated 3½ miles northwest of Scituate.

Village
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Rockland is a town in the region of . Its population was about 18,000 in the 2020 census. Abington is a town with a population of roughly 17,000. is situated 4 miles southwest of Scituate.

Scituate

Latitude
42.1924° or 42° 11′ 33″ north
Longitude
-70.7262° or 70° 43′ 34″ west
Population
18,100
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
Open location code
87JF57RF+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158824366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Wiki­data ID
Q2415936
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Scituate” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Scituate”
  • Belarusian: “Сычуэйт”
  • Catalan: “Scituate”
  • Chechen: “Сичуейт”
  • Chinese: “斯基圖特”
  • Chinese: “斯基尤特”
  • Chinese: “錫楚埃特”
  • Chinese: “锡楚埃特”
  • Chinese: “麻州錫楚埃特”
  • Czech: “Scituate”
  • Dutch: “Scituate”
  • French: “Scituate”
  • German: “Scituate”
  • Haitian: “Scituate, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Scituate”
  • Hebrew: “סיצ’ואיט”
  • Hungarian: “Scituate”
  • Italian: “Scituate”
  • Japanese: “シチュエート (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Japanese: “シテュエート”
  • Kazakh: “Skïtwéýt”
  • Kazakh: “Скитуэйт”
  • Kazakh: “سكىيتۋەيت”
  • Kirghiz: “Скитуэйт”
  • Mazanderani: “سیتویت (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “سیتویت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Scituate”
  • Persian: “سیتویت”
  • Polish: “Scituate”
  • Portuguese: “Scituate”
  • Russian: “Сичуэйт”
  • Serbian: “Сичуејт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Scituate, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Scituate”
  • Slovak: “Scituate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایسکیتوئیت، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Scituate”
  • Swedish: “Scituate, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Scituate”
  • Tatar: “Сичуейт”
  • Turkish: “Scituate, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Scituate”
  • Ukrainian: “Січуейт”
  • Volapük: “Scituate”
  • Welsh: “Scituate, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Scituate”
  • “Scituate”

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