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    Nantasket Beach is a beach in the town of Hull, Massachusetts. It is part of the Nantasket Beach Reservation, administered by the state Department of Conservation...
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    [citation needed] Hull is home to the popular resort community of Nantasket Beach and has been the summer home to several luminaries throughout the years...
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    Boston to Greenbush with the opening of the MBTA Greenbush Line. The Nantasket Beach Railroad opened in 1880 as a branch off the South Shore but closed...
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    Paragon Park was an amusement park located on Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. It closed in 1984. Among the amusement rides in operation during...
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    Sea foam (redirect from Beach foam)
    Europe. 11 October 2019: Subtropical storm Melissa brought sea foam to Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. 21 January 2020: Storm Gloria floods Tossa...
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    the Nantasket Beach Reservation at the southern end of the Hull peninsula. A 1.25-mile (2.01 km) section of the roads (the portion adjoining Nantasket Beach)...
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    Oregon. Through 2019, the oldest remaining Fascination game had been in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, which was the original 1918 game from Coney Island...
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    Orchard Beach, Maine Paragon Park (closed 1984), Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts The Pike (circa 1960s – 1979 opened as "Rotor", Long Beach, California...
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    1888, the Old Colony Railroad signed a 99-year lease agreement the Nantasket Beach Railroad with service to Hull. Several days later, on April 7, 1888...
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    keeper of 4 Massachusetts Humane Society life–boats at Stony Beach, Point Allerton, Nantasket Beach, Gun Rock Cove and a mortar station at Gun Rock Cove. October...
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    the same name, opened by 1854. It was later renamed Nantasket Junction when the Nantasket Beach Railroad opened. The South Shore Railroad was acquired...
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    Plum Island (Massachusetts) (category Beaches of Massachusetts)
    approximately 11 miles (18 km) in length. The island is named for the wild beach plum shrubs that grow on its dunes, but is also famous for the purple sands...
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    friends to a party, including dinner and a trip to the amusement park at Nantasket Beach. Polly was 28, married, with two small children. Harry was 22, of slight...
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    Revere Beach is a public beach in Revere, Massachusetts, measuring over three miles (4.8 km) long and located about five miles (8 km) north of downtown...
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    first performed on August 15, 1954, at the bandstand of Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach in Hull. Following three previous attempts by the legislature to designate...
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    Springsteen, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Jimmy Buffett, and The Beach Boys. Political event hosts included Reagan, Nixon, Truman, and Kennedy...
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    "Swimming Championship of the World" against American Paul Boyton at Nantasket Beach, however he was accused of cheating and was not awarded the prize money...
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    wrestling, and had his last bouts in 1951. He opened a liquor store near Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. He also owned a bar on Massachusetts Ave.,...
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    Crane Beach is a 1,234-acre (4.99 km2) conservation and recreation property located in Ipswich, Massachusetts, immediately north of Cape Ann. It consists...
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    Walden Pond (category Beaches of Massachusetts)
    shore are beach, while other parts descend steeply to the water from trails that ring the pond. There are three buildings at the main beach area at the...
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    river's watershed in May 1775, and the British attacked via the river's beach in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June. In 1805, the Middlesex Canal linked...
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    colonizing effort in New England after Popham Colony, Plymouth Colony and Nantasket Beach. Two ships of the Dorchester Company brought 32 in number with John...
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    non-experimental system was a seasonal municipal line installed near Nantasket Beach in 1904; the first year-round commercial line was built to open a hilly...
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    electrification that actually took place was on the South Shore and Nantasket Beach lines. The Nantasket Beach line was electrified in 1895, and trolley service ran...
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    first opened in 1917, it was The Giant Coaster at Paragon Park in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts. The Giant Coaster was a double out-and-back side-friction...
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  • impressed company owners. He served as a foreman at Paragon Park on Nantasket Beach in 1916. There he worked with designer John A. Miller on the construction...
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  • "great tidal stream" Nagog Pond: Concord water supply located in Acton Nantasket Beach: (Natick/Wampanoag) "at the strait" or "low-tide place" Nashawena Island:...
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    Horseneck Beach Jug End Lynn Shore Middlesex Fells Mount Everett Mount Greylock Mount Sugarloaf Mount Tom Myles Standish Mystic River Nahant Beach Nantasket Beach...
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    Hull Nantasket Beach, Nantasket Reservation Ipswich Clark Beach Crane Beach Pavilion Beach Plum Island Steep Hill Beach Plymouth Charge Pond Beach, Myles...
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    southeast would align these lights to stay clear of Hardings Ledge off Nantasket Beach. Bug Light was constructed in 1856 and showed a fixed red light. In...
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