MENU OF STORIES
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Whale Watching, 8/31/05
Marshfield Fair, 8/24/05
North River, 8/17/05
World's End, Hingham, 8/10/05
Plymouth Waterfront, 8/3/05
Blue Hill, 7/27/05
Loring Hall Cinema, Hingham, 7/20/05
Band Concerts, 7/13/05
Summer Concerts, 7/13/05
Adams House, Quincy, 7/6/05
Nantasket Beach, Hull, 6/29/05

While you're there:

Kayak to Boston Harbor Islands. Grape, Bumpkin, Sheep and Slate islands are close. More experienced paddlers can reach Peddocks Island and Boston Light on Little Brewster Island.

Visit Hingham Square restaurants and shops or take a stroll on Nantasket Avenue in Hull.

 

Wildflowers in a World’s End field.

 

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IT'S GREAT OUTDOORS

World’s End, a Trustees of Resrvations property in Hingham, is a great place to walk and take in breathtaking water views. Bob Delorey of Hingham and Jean MacBarron of Rockland stroll at sunset with Upton, a golden retriever.

World's End in Hingham is a nature lover's dream that almost never was.

This 251-acre peninsula, a farm in the 19th century, was, at different times, looked at as a possible location for the United Nations headquarters and a nuclear power plant.

Thank the non-profit Trustees of Reservations organization for saving what is one of the 30 locations in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

 

Tom Nardo of Norwell paddled to World’s End after launching his kayak in Hingham Harbor.

Locally, it's a must-visit place for hikers, joggers, kayakers, boaters, photographers and fishermen.

Enter the park via Martins Lane in Hingham and you come upon 4½ miles of carriage paths and footpaths that lead through grasslands to the waterfront.

 

The reservation's hills are traversed by tree-lined roads and dotted with groves of trees.

Four elongated hills connected by paths offer dramatic views of the Weir River, Hingham Harbor and the Boston skyline.

People kayak to World's End to picnic. Larger boats are anchored in the Hull and Hingham harbors.

Families are everywhere, running, jogging, hiking, swimming, horseback riding and exploring.

The degree of hiking difficulty is advertised as "moderate," but don't be fooled; some of the inclines are steep.

According to the Trustees of Reservations, John Brewer built a mansion on Martins Lane in 1856 and over the next 30 years acquired most of the peninsula plus Sarah Island and Langley Island in Hingham Harbor. Brewer's farming estate produced hay and other crops, and Brewer raised thoroughbred horses, cattle, pigs, chickens and sheep. The complex had a blacksmith shop, greenhouses, a smokehouse and homes for farmhands and their families.

In 1889, Brewer hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design a residential subdivision for World's End. The plan was to build 163 homes connected by tree-lined paths. The paths were cut and trees planted, but the development never came to be.

Building a headquarters for the United Nations on World's End was proposed in 1945; the threat of a nuclear power plant came in 1965.

Two years later, the Trustees of Reservations stepped in to save the property, and the conservation group has maintained it ever since.

- Joe McGee
The Patriot Ledger

A Jack Russell terrier in grassy shallows at World’s End.