Nantasket Beach

Nantasket Beach is a beach in Hull. in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. The area covers a total area of ​​26 acres ( 0.1 km ²) and is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The beach has fine, light gray sand and is one of the most populated beaches in the metropolitan region of Greater Boston. At low tide there are several acres with tidal pools.

Origin of the name

The name " Nantasket " is derived from a word of the language of the Wampanoag words there "at the strait " or "place of low water ." Nantasket was settled shortly after the Plymouth Colony and before the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Until incorporation of Hull in 1644, the English settlers referred to the entire region as " Nantasket Peninsula ".

History

Over time, many hotels settled in the vicinity of the beach, and steamships offered in the 1840s, three times per day to connect to Boston to. The amusement park Paragon Park was right on the coast, was closed in 1984.

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