History of Scituate, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to Scituate, Massachusetts, USA

• 1630 - Scituate is settled
  Scituate was settled by a group of people from Plymouth about 1627, who were joined by immigrants from the county of Kent in England.
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1636 - Scituate is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• In 1640 Isaac Stedman dammed the First Herring Brook and built a sawmill beside the pond.
  
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  Cudworth House (Built 1723) and Barn
  
• 1810 - In the year 1810 the United States Congress voted $4000 to build a lighthouse at Scituate Harbor.
  The Light, of split granite blocks with a one and one half story house attached, was activated in 1811.
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• 1845 - SCITUATE. [Pop. 3,886. Inc. 1636.]
  Scituate is supposed to be a corruption of the Indian word Satuit, meaning Cold Brook.
  
  Nineteen houses in this town were burned in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Scituate
  Scutate, a post-township in Plymouth co., Massachusetts, 22 miles S. E. by S. from Boston. Population, 2149.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
•  1880 - Best Butter Cow
  The Jersey Belle, owned by a Mr. Ellms, of Scituate, Mass., is claimed to be the best "butter cow" living. She is described as being a beautiful...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Scituate Massachusetts, 1890
  Scituate lies in the northeast part of Plymouth County and is bounded on the north by Cohasset; the east by the ocean, on the south by Marshfield and ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Scituate
  Scituate, or Scituate Harbor, a post-village in Scituate township, Plymouth co., Mass., on the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 1 mile from the Old Colony...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Pilot Boat, "Columbia" , wrecked Nov. 17, 1898, Scituate, Mass.
  
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  Front Street and Post Office
  
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  The Old LIght, Scituate, Mass.
  
• 1906
  Scituate, or Scituate Harbor, a post-village and bathing-resort in Scituate township (towm), Plymouth co., Mass., on the Atlantic Ocean and on the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Main Street, looking South, Minot, Mass.
  
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  Pegotty Beach and Second Cliff
  
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  The Stanley House
  
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  Main Gate and Office at Dreamwold, Farm of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson
  
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  Cottages at Shore Acres
  
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  Church and Lawson's Tower
  
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  The Merrymount House
  
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  The Old Mill at (Greenbush)
  
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  Boston Sand & Gravel Co.
  
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  Grand View Hotel
  
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  High School
  
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  Front Street