HINGHAM , a township of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on Massachusetts Bay. Pop (1890) 4564; (1900) 5059 (969 being foreign-born); (1905, state census) 4819; (1910) 4965. Area, about 30 sq. in. The township is traversed by the New
, a co-educational school founded and endowed with about 12,000 in 1784 by Sarah Derby (17141790), was opened in 1791. Hingham has a public library (1868), with 12,000 volumes in 1908. The Old Meeting
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
, erected in 1681, is one of the oldest church buildings in the country used continuously. Manufactures were relatively much more important in the 17th and 18th centuries than since. There were settlers here as early as 1633, some of themnotably Edmund
,being natives of Hingham, Norfolk, England, whence the name; and in 1635 common land called Barecove became the township of Hingham. See History of the Town of Hingham (4 vols., Hingham, 1893).
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