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Duxbury Massachusetts is located on Cape Cod Bay, 35 miles south of Boston on the South Shore. Our historic town is renowned for its cranberry bogs, oyster beds, and shipbuilding era homes. Duxbury offers excellent educational opportunities, recreational activities, and town services.
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- Duxbury Beach Park
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Six miles long and bending out into Cape Cod Bay, Duxbury Beach is one of the most scenic and most accessible beaches in Massachusetts. The beach is partially in Marshfield, Duxbury and Plymouth, and is linked from Duxbury’s Powder Point by a wooden bridge, first built in 1892 and reconstructed in the same style in the 1980s. If you have a parking ...
Posted on a knoll over the Bluefish River, is the place where Mayflower cooper John Alden (c. 1598-1687) and wife Priscilla (c. 1602-c. 1685), also a Mayflower passenger, settled and raised their ten children and became respected members of the Plymouth Colony. The couple were made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fictional poem, The Courtshi...
Close to the site of his home on the Nook in Duxbury, there’s a state park and tower dedicated to the military leader of the Plymouth colony, Myles Standish (c. 1584-1656). This has a spectacular position, crowning Captain’s Hill, which rises steeply to 200 feet above sea level. The monument is a 116-foot granite tower topped with a 14-foot statue ...
One way to experience Duxbury’s compelling maritime history is simply to drive along Washington Street, occasionally taking a look down the side streets. From Hall’s Corner to Powder Point Avenue, this road runs parallel to the shore, and is flanked by some 200 historic houses, the majority of which were built in the Federal style between 1780 and ...
The restless, cold and salty waters of Duxbury Bay are perfect for producing world-class oysters. What’s curious is that nobody had picked up on this fact until the 1990s when Skip Bennett, the local son of a lobsterman, started harvesting oysters here with the help of friends and family. Today, Island Creek Oysters is one of just a few shellfish h...
The headquarters of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society is a grand Federal-style house built for the wealthy shipping merchant Nathaniel Winsor, Jr., and his wife Hannah Loring Winsor. Winsor was in the third generation of a renowned shipbuilding family, and his father had pioneered the large-scale manufacture of schooners after the American R...
In Duxbury you can visit what is thought to be the oldest maintained cemetery in the country. On a triangular plot about 1.5 acres in size, the Myles Standish Burial Ground was established around 1638 and is the final resting place of several Mayflower pilgrims, including Myles Standish. His likely remains were located in the early 1890s, and an im...
More than 1,000 acres of Duxbury’s interior is taken up by a wetland area, with a jigsaw puzzle of properties owned by public and private groups, like the Conservation Commission of Duxbury and Mass Audubon. The good news is that these parcels are all interlinked by a vast trail system in ever-changing landscapes. Some of these paths are extremely ...
Also in the care of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society is a Federal-style wood-frame house built in 1807 by one Captain Gershom Bradford. The residence had interesting beginnings, as Bradford’s wife, Sarah Hickling Bradford supervised the early phases of construction when her husband was a captive of the French at the time. Something remarkab...
A cherished culinary asset for Duxbury for more than three decades, French Memories is an authentic French patisserie making baguettes, croissants, tarts, eclairs, macarons, mousses, choux pastries and other dainty creations. The co-owner, Philippe Odier, grew up in Paris and comes from a long line of pastry chefs. The shop has become a destination...
Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately 35 miles (56 km) to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 2020 census.
Duxbury Massachusetts is located on Cape Cod Bay, 35 miles south of Boston on the South Shore. Our historic town is renowned for its cranberry bogs, oyster beds, and shipbuilding era homes. Duxbury offers excellent educational opportunities, recreational activities, and town services.
- AudElliott194. Scarsdale, NY91 contributions. Wonderful experience! A must see! A group of us signed up for this tour that took us through the hatchery and lab where oysters are “grown.”
- Ben_Theretoo406. Chevy Chase, MD3,341 contributions. Yet Another Wonderful Insight Into the Tenacity and Determination of Our American Forebears. Ben and Mrs Too have once again been educated and astounded because of our system for finding little pockets of excellence in our young but proud heritage.
- Nan D. 78 contributions. A must see in Duxbury! I enjoyed our tour today. John and Priscilla were my 9th great grandparents. The house and grounds are beautiful and well cared for.
- amanda g. Durham, CT 306 contributions. Very clean beach. We enjoyed this beach a lot w our kids. It is perfect at low tide. The water is crystal clear w no seaweed!!
May 25, 2024 · Duxbury Beach, located in the charming town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, offers visitors a wide range of exciting activities to enjoy. With its picturesque sandy shores and stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean, this beach is a popular destination for locals and tourists alike.
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The area now known as Duxbury was inhabited by Native Americans as early as 12,000 to 9,000 B.C. By the time European settlers arrived here, the region was inhabited by the Wampanoags who called this place Mattakeesett, meaning “place of many fish.”
