Paragon Park Carousel
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.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Langlee Island and Sarah Island.
Langlee Island
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 southwest of Paragon Park Carousel.
Sarah Island
Park
Sarah Island is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island has a permanent size of just under 5 acres, and is composed large outcroppings and ledges of Roxbury puddingstone together with glacial till which rises to a height of 30 feet above sea level. Sarah Island is situated 1½ miles southwest of Paragon Park Carousel.
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 2 miles south of Paragon Park Carousel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hingham and Cohasset.
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.
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.
Hull
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 Carousel
- Type: Carousel
- Address: 1 Wharf Avenue
- Categories: building, tourism, tourist attraction, historic site, and theme park
- Location: Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.27029° or 42° 16′ 13″ northLongitude
-70.85671° or 70° 51′ 24″ westOperator
Friends of the Paragon CarouselOpen location code
87JF74CV+48OpenStreetMap ID
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tourism=theme_parkWikidata ID
Q7134600
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