Cohasset Waterfront
Newport Moves Over as Cohasset, Massachusetts Brings Competition For an Unusual Weekend Drive
by Suzy Guese
Newport, Rhode Island tends to be the main spot in New England for that Sunday drive of ooing and awing at the infamous “homes” or rather mini palaces scattered throughout the area. However, roughly 25 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts’ own contender with Newport, Cohasset, sits along sleepy lagoons.
Wedged in between Scituate and Hingham, Cohasset is not an ordinary town. Boasting several strange accolades anywhere from the site of the filming of the 1987 movie The Witches of Eastwick to a landing spot for Captain John Smith in 1614, Cohasset covers around 9 square miles. It was officially incorporated as a town in 1770.
