History of Hull, Massachusetts, USA

Hull, Massachusetts
Plymouth county. Hull was first settled about the year 1625. Incorporated, 1644. Population, 1837, 180. This town comprises the peninsula of Nantasket, which forms the S.E. side of Boston harbor. It extends N. by W. from Cohasset, 5 miles, and is celebrated for its beautiful beach, 4 miles in length, and for its shell fish and sea fowl. The town lies between two hills of fine land, near point Alderton, opposite Boston light-house. It lies 9 miles E.S.E. from Boston, by water, and 22 by land, via Hingham. On one of the hills in this place, is a well 90 feet in depth, which is frequently almost full of water. Capital invested in the manufacture of salt, $12,500.
Hull is remarkable for the unanimity which always prevails among its inhabitants in their deliberative assemblies, and for a spirit of compromise manifest on all occasions in their selection of public servants.

Hull is a little township at the extremity of Nantasket Beach, by which it is joined to Cohasset, a town of Norfolk County.

It consists of five small hills, which, at high tides, are almost islands.

It has no meeting-house, is far from every other town, and often difficult of access.

It forms one of the capes or points that enclose the harbor of Boston, called Point Alderton, after one of the Pilgrims who came in the May Flower.

Distance from Boston, by water, 9 miles, by land, 22.

Hull, a post-township of Plymouth co., Massachusetts, 9 miles by water S. E. from Boston, has a small village of its own name. Population, 253.

Hull is one of the most picturesque and unique towns in the vicinity of a metropolis. It is 9 miles distant from Boston across the harbor, and 22 by land. The Nantasket Beach Railroad, operated by the Old Colony Railroad, extends the entire length of the town to Pemberton, at the extreme northwestern point. This town is the smallest in the county, and the smallest but two in the State. It forms the extreme north of Plymouth County, occupying the peninsula of Nantasket, which runs from Hingham and Cohasset north to Point Allerton, then turns a right angle westward; this section making the southern line of the outer part of Boston Harbor. The peninsula is about 6 miles long; and for nine tenths of its length is scarcely more than one-half a mile in width, and, at some places, not more than forty rods. On the eastern side is a beautiful sandy beach; and from five rounded eminences called hills, quite equally distributed along the narrow extent of the town, are delightful prospects of the ...

Hull, a post-township of Plymouth co., Mass., is a small peninsula in Massachusetts Bay, 9 miles S.E. of Boston. Pop, in 1890, 989.