Scituate (MA) (Images of America)

One hundred years ago, the people of Scituate proudly boasted not only of living in the coastal town but also of inhabiting the various villages––among them Greenbush, the West End, North Scituate, the Harbor, Scituate Center, Egypt, and Humarock––that comprised their community. Taming the four cliffs of Scituate, the townsfolk harnessed wind and wave to power their mills, scoured and scraped seafloor rocks to gather valuable moss, and outlasted some of the most powerful storms ever to hit the New England coast. Images of America: Scituate takes us on a tour of Dreamwold, “Copper King” Thomas W. Lawson’s beautiful country estate, and through the villages to meet the endless list of interesting people who lived there, from Henry Turner Bailey, the U.S. delegate to six International Art Congresses, to Uncle John Brown, celebrated as “the Oldest Man in Scituate.” Along the way, we patrol the beaches with the surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service under the shining beacons of Scituate and Minot’s Lights coming across the wrecks of the Columbia and the Etrusco.