Quincy Animal Shelter
Quincy Animal Shelter is an animal shelter in Norfolk, Massachusetts. Quincy Animal Shelter is situated nearby to the government office Quincy Department of Health, as well as near the island Mosswetusset Hummock.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mosswetusset Hummock and Squantum Point Park.
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.
Squantum Point Park
Park
Photo: Fullobeans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Squantum Point Park is a state-owned, public recreation area located on the Squantum peninsula of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The park was created on the site of the former Harvard Aviation Field and Squantum Naval Air Station, which is preserved in a 2,700-foot-long strip of runway, and the former dockworks of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. Squantum Point Park is situated 1 mile northwest of Quincy Animal Shelter.
Dorchester Shores Reservation
Recreation area
Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0.
Dorchester Shores Reservation has been used as a common name for several non-contiguous recreation areas along the extended mouth of the Neponset River at the seaboard edge of the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Dorchester Shores Reservation is situated 1 mile west of Quincy Animal Shelter.
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.
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.
Fields Corner
Neighborhood
Fields Corner is a historic commercial district in Dorchester, the largest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States founded in June 1630. Fields Corner is situated 2 miles northwest of Quincy Animal Shelter.
Quincy Animal Shelter
- Type: Animal shelter
- Category: building
- Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.28928° or 42° 17′ 21″ northLongitude
-71.0254° or 71° 1′ 31″ westOpen location code
87JC7XQF+PROpenStreetMap ID
way 29846192OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=animal_shelterOpenStreetMap feature
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