Hull, Massachusetts Hull, Massachusetts Official seal of Hull, Massachusetts Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, positioned on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor.
Hull is the smallest town by territory area in Plymouth County and the fourth smallest in the state.
However, its populace density is inside the top thirty suburbs in the state.
Hull has been the summer home to a several luminaries throughout the years, including Calvin Coolidge and former Boston mayor John F.
The town was first settled in 1622 and officially incorporated in 1644, when it was titled for Kingston upon Hull, England.
Hull was originally part of Suffolk County, and when the southern part of the county was set off as Norfolk County in 1793, it encompassed the suburbs of Hull and Hingham.
When it period its boat homes for lifeboats it placed a several in Hull at Stoney Beach, on Nantasket Beach, and near Cohasset.
The Hull Lifesaving Museum is now positioned in the 1889 Pt.
Coast Guard Station Point Allerton opened at the edge of Hull Village near Pemberton Point in 1969.
Hull features Nantasket Beach, with fine, light gray sand generally considered one of the finest beaches in New England. At low tide, there are acres of sandy tide pools.
Steamer Rose Standish, operating between Boston, Hull and Hingham, 1864 Hull is positioned at 42 17 10 N 70 52 35 W (42.286347, -70.87663). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 26.9 square miles (69.6 km2), of which 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2) is territory and 24.1 square miles (62.3 km2), or 89.58%, is water. Hull is positioned on the narrow Nantasket Peninsula, which juts into Massachusetts Bay and is the southern territory point at the entrance to Boston Harbor.
Hidden in Hull's bay is Hog Island, now known as Spinnaker Island.
Hog Island was home to Hull's first high school, as well as Fort Duvall before WWII, and a Nike Missile site amid the Cold War.
Spinnaker Island has been advanced with condominiums, and is connected to mainland Hull via a low bridge.
The town is bordered by Hingham Bay to the west, Massachusetts Bay to the north and east, and the suburbs of Cohasset and Hingham to the south.
Hull is positioned almost 20 miles (32 km) by territory from Boston, although by water it is just 5 miles (8.0 km) from Pemberton Point in Hull to City Point in South Boston.
Although it is a forty-five-minute drive into the heart of Boston, it is a twenty-minute boat ride from Pemberton Pier, at the tip of Hull, into Boston's Long Wharf, which is close to the North End and Faneuil Hall.
Hull is separated from Cohasset and Hingham by the Weir River estuary, which is state-recognized as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern.
The estuary contains almost 600 acres (2.4 km2) of undeveloped land, including almost 140 acres (.57km2) of undeveloped territory in Hull, of which close to 80 percent is protected from development.
The Weir River Estuary Center, owned by the town and being advanced by the Weir River Watershed Association, positioned at the entrance to Hull on George Washington Boulevard, was expected to open by summer 2009.
Black Rock Beach connecting to Cohasset is the town's only landed connection to the mainland, although two bridges link the town to Hingham.
Town neighborhoods include (from south to north) Green Hill, Straits Pond, Crescent Beach, Gunrock, Atlantic Hill, West Corner, Rockaway, Rockaway Annex, Nantasket Beach, Sagamore Hill, Hampton Circle, Sunset Point, Kenberma, Strawberry Hill, Waveland, Windermere, Allerton, Spinnaker Island, Stony Beach, Telegraph Hill, Hull Village, and Pemberton.
The areas west of the northerly two miles of the three-mile-long Nantasket Beach constitute the majority of the town's landed area.
Green Hill near Cohasset and all of the hills out along the peninsula Sagamore, Hampton, Sunset Point, Strawberry, Allerton, Telegraph, and Hull Hill are drumlins formed by the last glacier about 14,000 years ago.
The lands of Hull also include Peddocks Island, a part of the Boston Harbor Islands State Park.
Hull's first wind turbine, next to the high school Massachusetts Route 228 becomes Nantasket Avenue at the center entrance to Hull.
The avenue continues through the rest of town, to Main Street in Hull Village, which then goes on past the Pt.
Allerton Coast Guard station ending at Windmill Point, also known as Pemberton Point, at the high school near the Hull Wind 1 windmill.
The MBTA's bus service extends into neighboring Hingham, and the Greenbush Line of the commuter rail recently re-opened, with its closest station being at Nantasket Junction, site of the former Hingham Lumber Company lumber yard, which is where the Hull branch of the barns once connected.
Commuters to Logan International Airport and Boston (and in the summer to Boston Harbor Islands) can take the MBTA Commuter Boat, which leaves from Pemberton Point, the very tip of Hull.
Being on the coast, Hull is able to maintain a sailing club. The town has an official song, "Underneath a Hullonian Sky", written by Cinzi Lavin. Hull has many homegrown artists.
The Hull Performing Arts is the town's improve theatre organization.
Hull Town Hall On the nationwide level, Hull is a part of Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, and is presently represented by Stephen Lynch.
On the state level, Hull is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Third Plymouth district, which includes Cohasset, Hingham and Scituate.
The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate by Senator Bob Hedlund (R-Weymouth) as a part of the Plymouth and Norfolk district, which includes the suburbs of Cohasset, Duxbury, Hingham, Marshfield, Norwell, Scituate and Weymouth. The town is patrolled on a secondary basis by the First (Norwell) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. The closest courthouse is the 2nd District Court positioned in Hingham, right outside of the town of Hull's perimeters on George Washington Boulevard.
Hull is governed on the small-town level by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a town manager and a board of selectmen.
The town hall, as well as the police command posts and the Green Hill Fire station, are all positioned in the southern portion of town, closest to the mainland.
The town's enhance library is positioned on Main Street in Hull Village in a contemporary Victorian mansion, assembled in 1889 as a summer home by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844 1890, famed as an Irish patriot, editor of the Catholic weekly Pilot, and poet).
Hull has its own school fitness for its approximately 1,250 students: Hull Public Schools.
Hull has an election-based school board committee with five members that presently includes: Hull High School is positioned at the end of the peninsula.
Hull High's squads are known as the Pirates, and their school colors are blue and gold.
The Hull High School graduating class in 2015 was 88 students.
The town does not have any private schools (excluding seaside Montessori, a pre K Montessori school) but does have agreements to send students to county-wide vocational schools.
The nearest private schools are positioned in neighboring Hingham, and the nearest vocational high school is positioned in Weymouth.
Vestas V47-660 k - W wind turbine ("Hull Wind 1") at Pemberton Point (a.k.a.
Hull Wind 1 Hull Wind 1 Hull Wind 1 Hull Wind 1 Hull Wind 1 Vestas V80-1.8 - MW wind turbine ("Hull Wind 2") Information and Historical Data on Cities, Towns and Counties in Massachusetts "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hingham town, Plymouth County, Massachusetts".
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"Town of Hull Song" (PDF).
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
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