Kingston Town

Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Kingston Town Hall is located at 26 Evergreen Street, Kingston, MA 02364.
Phone: 781‑585‑0500.

Neighborhoods

Beginnings [1]

Kingston was first settled about 1620 and incorporated in 1726.

Passengers of the Mayflower, the Fortune and the Ann selected this spot on the navigable Jones River for settlement; it was in Plymouth Town until 1726. Shipbuilding, once a thriving industry, ceased in 1887, but a few wharves are a reminder of former commercial activity.

The First Congregational Church (Unitarian), Main Street, was erected in 1717. The Squire William Sever House, Linden Street, is a frame structure built in 1760.

1. Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts, Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People, American Guide Series, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1937.

Nearby Towns: Carver Town • Marshfield Town • Plymouth Town •