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When one looks at a county map of the South Shore area, one is struck by the fact that Cohasset appears as an island of Norfolk County, cut off from the rest of the county by the adjacent towns of Hingham and Hull, in Plymouth County.
Cohasset was originally part of Suffolk County, and when the southern part of the county was set off as Norfolk County in 1793, it included the towns of Cohasset, Hingham and Hull. In 1803, Hull and Hingham opted out of Norfolk County and became part of Plymouth County, leaving Cohasset as an exclave of Norfolk County.
Cohasset, town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along Massachusetts Bay, about 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Boston. Captain John Smith supposedly landed there in 1614, and the site, settled about 1647, was a part of Hingham until its incorporation in 1770.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The county is not completely contiguous; the towns of Brookline and Cohasset are each part of Norfolk County but are separated from the majority of Norfolk County (and each other) by either water or other counties.
As a result of its history, Norfolk County has two communities (Brookline and Cohasset) which are not contiguous with the rest of the county, and Norfolk County as a whole is located south of Suffolk County, notwithstanding the origin of the counties' respective names.
Early Establishment. The Massachusetts General Court, in 1643, established 4 counties then called shires, to settle legal cases in the county seats of Essex, Norfolk, Middlesex and Suffolk. That first Norfolk County became part of Essex County in 1679 causing the farming towns south and west of Boston to petition the Legislature over a period ...
Cohasset is a city located in the county of Norfolk in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Its population at the 2010 census was 7,542 and a population density of 239 people per km². After 10 years in 2020 city had an estimated population of 8,529 inhabitants.
