At sunset, we walked along Frederick Law Olmsted-designed carriage paths, toward rolling hills and rocky shorelines, with a view of the Boston skyline from a property called World's End.
"World’s End comprises four coastal drumlins—spoon-shaped hills formed by glaciers—extending into Hingham Harbor. John Brewer built a mansion here in 1856 and, over the next 30 years, acquired most of the peninsula’s 400-plus acres as well as Sarah and Langley Islands. In 1890, Brewer asked famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design a 163-home residential subdivision. The drives were cut, but the development never came to fruition, nor did later proposals for the United Nations Headquarters in the 1940s or a nuclear power plant in the 1960s.
In 1967, thanks to locals’ commitment and tremendous fundraising efforts, The Trustees and dedicated residents from Hingham as well as the surrounding communities were able to preserve this special place.
Throughout your journey, you’ll discover old features transposed to the modern era: just like in its pre-agrarian days, tides nourish former salt marsh through specially built culverts and promote habitat health and diversity, while Olmsted’s designed landscape is preserved through mowing, pruning, cutting, and planting- TheTrustees
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This day came in sunny and cold. This afternoon we drove to the coast, to Hingham Massachusetts to joins some folks for an after hour, Solstice walk at World's End. The weather was crisp and we caught a beauyiful sunset as we walked.
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