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Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located upon a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor. Its population was 10,072 at the 2020 census. Hull is the smallest town by land Place in Plymouth County and the fourth smallest in the state. However, its population density is nearly four mature that of Massachusetts as a whole.

Hull is house to the popular resort community of Nantasket Beach and has been the summer home to several luminaries throughout the years, including Calvin Coolidge and former Boston mayor John F. Fitzgerald (also known as “Honey Fitz”), the father of Rose Kennedy and father-in-law of Joseph Kennedy Sr.

The Massachuset tribe called the area Nantasket, meaning “at the strait” or “low-tide place”. It is a series of islands associated by sandbars forming Nantasket Peninsula, on which the Plymouth Colony customary a trading say in 1621 for trade later the Wampanoags. The town was first fixed in 1622 and officially incorporated in 1644, when it was named for Kingston upon Hull, England. Roger Conant was in the area, after neglect the Plymouth Colony and before going to Cape Ann in 1625. Early industries included fishing, trade and salvaging shipwrecks. During the Revolutionary War, General Benjamin Lincoln oversaw the evacuation of Boston from here in 1778. In 1776 a fort called “Fort Independence” (name transferred to the current fort in 1797) was built on Allerton Point, and in 1901 Fort Revere was built upon the same site. In 1927 Fort Duvall was completed upon Hog Island (now Spinnaker Island) armed as soon as 16-inch guns, the largest ever deployed by the United States.