Orchard Beach
Orchard Beach is a beach in City of Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Orchard Beach is situated nearby to the recreation area Orchard St Brunswick St, as well as near First Church of Squantum Congregation.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Moon Island and Thompson Island.
Moon Island
Park
Moon Island is an island in Quincy Bay, in the middle of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States. It is the location of the Boston Fire Department Training Academy, and Boston Police Department shooting range.
Thompson Island
Island
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thompson Island, also known as Cathleen Stone Island, is a 170-acre island in the Dorchester Bay section of Boston Harbor, offshore from downtown Boston, Massachusetts.
Mosswetusset Hummock
Island
Photo: Inquietudeofcharacter, Public domain.
Moswetuset Hummock is a Native American site and the original name of the tribe in the region named Massachusetts after them. The wooded hummock in Squantum, Massachusetts, is formally recognized as historic by descendants of the Ponkapoag people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Quincy and Neponset.
North Quincy
Suburb
North Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is separated from the city of Boston by the Neponset River, and borders the Quincy neighborhoods of Squantum, Montclair and Wollaston. North Quincy is situated 1½ miles southwest of Orchard Beach.
Neponset
Neighborhood
Photo: Boston City Archives, CC BY 2.0.
Neponset is a district in the southeastern corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The Neponset Indians were the original inhabitants of this district and in 1646 John Eliot preached unsuccessfully to the Native American community in Lower Mills led by Sachem Cutshamekin before the tribe moved to Ponkapoag. Neponset is situated 2 miles west of Orchard Beach.
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. Adams Shore is situated 2½ miles southeast of Orchard Beach.
Orchard Beach
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: City of Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.29774° or 42° 17′ 52″ northLongitude
-71.00593° or 71° 0′ 21″ westOpen location code
87JC7XXV+3JOpenStreetMap ID
way 282534384OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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