Shinbum quaqua situ6/12/2023 ![]() The 1846 ship Squantum, 646 tons, was built by J.T. Squantum is served by bus route 211 of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) with connections to the regional subway at North Quincy station on the MBTA Red Line. Dorchester Street continues northeast to the Moon Island Road causeway to Moon Island, controlled by the city of Boston and not available for general public access. Today Marina Bay includes a variety of restaurants, other businesses, and housing, as well as a popular boardwalk.Įast Squantum Street becomes a causeway bordered by the Squantum Marshes and Boston Harbor as it enters the neighborhood from North Quincy and Quincy Shore Drive, heading northeast before turning south into the neighborhood at Dorchester Street it is the only land access onto the peninsula. The base was used until closing in 1954 and eventually was developed into the neighboring Marina Bay section of Quincy in the 1980s, with some opposition from Squantum residents who feared traffic congestion, noise pollution, and environmental damage from filling wetlands. The Naval Air Station Squantum also began operations on the peninsula in the 1920s as a naval reserve training base. ![]() In 1927, Dennison Airport opened at the lower end of Squantum Peninsula with Amelia Earhart as a chief employee and pilot. On July 1, 1912, during the 3rd annual Boston aviation meet held in Squantum, Harriet Quimby, the first woman pilot in the United States died while piloting an aircraft. Also around this time Squantum had been part of early aviation history as an airshow put on by Harvard University's Aeronautical Society was held on the peninsula in 1910. By the end of World War I, the neighborhood had formed as a year round residence. īy the middle of the eighteenth century Squantum had become a resort destination and was eventually connected to the area's trolley system. In the early years following colonization Squantum was part of Dorchester before joining Quincy when it was incorporated as a town separate from Braintree in 1792. In 1621 the tribe's chief, Chickatawbut, was visited there by Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Squanto, a native guide from whom the peninsula and neighborhood take their names. Moswetuset Hummock, a hill located at the head of the present day causeway leading to the neighborhood, is by one account the origin of the name of the Massachusett tribe of indigenous people for whom the state of Massachusetts is named. View from Bayside Rd., overlooking the Boston Harbor History īefore the arrival of English colonists in the seventeenth century, Squantum was populated by Native Americans who valued it as a fertile mollusk harvesting site. As described in a 2020 book, "One road leads in and out of a square mile of land that is a playground for children and a haven for adults." Squantum also has one of the largest Irish populations, on a per capita basis, of any neighborhood in the United States The neighborhood is further characterized by its tree-lined streets, its "island getaway" feel, close-knit community, and its annual Squantum Fourth of July Parade. Squantum residents are the wealthiest of any neighborhood in Quincy, according to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, and the home ownership rate is approximately 92%. Squantum has scenic, waterfront views of Boston Harbor and the Boston skyline and has many of Quincy’s most expensive homes. ![]() ![]() The population of the neighborhood in 2000 according to the United States Census Bureau was 2,626. Located in the northernmost portion of the city, Squantum is bordered on the north by Dorchester Bay and Boston Harbor, on the east by Moon Island and Quincy Bay, on the south by Quincy Bay and North Quincy, and on the west by the Marina Bay development. Often thought of as a peninsula, Squantum proper is technically a barrier island as it is surrounded on all four sides by water and is only connected to the mainland and Moon Island via causeways. Squantum is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, connected to the mainland by a causeway that crosses over a wetland area of the bay. Squantum offers scenic views of the Boston skyline.
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