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.

Photo: Marcbela, CC0.

Type: Carousel
Description: carousel in Hull, Massachusetts
Address: 1 Wharf Avenue

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Langlee Island and Nantasket Junction station.

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 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.

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.

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

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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 Carousel

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″ north

Longitude

-70.85671° or 70° 51′ 24″ west

Operator

Friends of the Paragon Carousel

Open location code

87JF74CV+48

OpenStreetMap ID

way 213653555

OpenStreetMap feature

attraction=carousel

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=theme_park

Wikidata ID

Q7134600

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