Every pin on the chart, as a list.
The Living Chart is for wandering: tap a marker, read its story, move to the next one. This is the same 38 places and stories in a form you can scan, search with Ctrl-F, or bookmark. Ten landmarks, eight legends, ten villages, six walks, and four places that no longer exist.
Landmarks
The Alden House
John and Priscilla's homestead site on Alden land, held by the family for centuries. The courtship that started it got a poem out of Longfellow. The courtship, in full →
Art Complex Museum
A family-founded museum with serious holdings: American art, Asian art, Shaker furniture, and a summer tea ceremony in an actual tea hut. Things to do →
Duxbury Beach
Six miles of barrier sand shielding the bay. Stickers, crossovers, and the good stretches are all in the guide. The beach guide →
Gurnet Light
A light has stood on this bluff since 1768, warning ships off the corner where the bay meets open water. Wrecks and rescues →
King Caesar House
Ezra Weston II's 1809 Federal mansion, built on a shipping fortune so large the town crowned him. Meet King Caesar →
Old Burying Ground
Mayflower passengers under bare trees, and two of the strangest stories in town. The full history →
The oyster flats
The tidal farms behind America's best-known oyster. At a good low you can see the trestles from the bridge. The oyster story →
Powder Point Bridge
A third of a mile of wooden pilings, the longest bridge of its kind on the East Coast. Golden hour belongs to it. The bridge, in full →
Standish Monument
The Captain on his column atop Captain's Hill. Climb the stairs inside for the best view on the South Shore. The monument, in full →
The transfer station
Officially a transfer station. Unofficially the town's true social center. There are rules, and everyone knows them but you. The transfer station guide →
Legends
The first Sabbath
The Mayflower's scouting party sheltered on Clark's Island through a December storm in 1620 and kept their first Sabbath ashore here, before Plymouth. Four centuries of history →
The General Arnold
Christmas Eve, 1778. A privateer anchored under the Gurnet in a blizzard, dragged onto the flats, and froze, with most of her crew lost in sight of the light. The full account →
The grave opened three times
Standish's bones were dug up in 1889, 1891, and 1931, and the arguing split the town's historical society in two. Read it in Folklore →
The guest who never checked out
Lysander Walker died in this 1741 farmhouse on Congress Street. The Sun Tavern's staff will tell you he stayed. Read it in Folklore →
The keeper at the Gurnet
Hannah Thomas kept the light alone through the Revolution, the first woman in America to do it. Guests say she keeps it still. Read it in Folklore →
The Portland Gale
The 1898 storm that sank the Portland, smashed the pier, and swept three model homes off the beach in one night. Read it in Folklore →
The sea serpent
Daniel Webster saw it out here and swore his boatman to silence. The bay has watched the horizon ever since. Read it in Folklore →
The tentacled stone
Squids carved over a Puritan minister in 1700. The town marker says fruit. Go stand in front of it and decide. Read it in Folklore →
Villages
Ashdod
Woods, cranberry bogs, and a four-way stop with a name straight out of scripture. Where the name comes from →
Hall's Corner
The town's working crossroads: errands, coffee, and opinions, in that order. The newcomer's guide →
Island Creek
Namesake of the oysters: farms up the creek, grants out on the flats. The newcomer's guide →
Mattakeesett
The name this shore answered to for ten thousand years before Duxbury: the place of many fish. Before Duxbury →
Millbrook
The north end, where the mill stream ran and the trains once stopped. The newcomer's guide →
The Nook
The old name for the neck under Captain's Hill, where Standish himself farmed. Some of the oldest ground in town. The newcomer's guide →
Powder Point
Old summer money on a peninsula. The bridge starts at the end of the street. The newcomer's guide →
Snug Harbor
The postcard: the pier, the shops, and the oyster company at the head of the bay. Younger than it looks. The name's surprising age →
Tarkiln
Named for the kilns that boiled pine tar to caulk the shipyards' hulls. Where the name comes from →
West Duxbury
Woods, bogs, and long roads out toward Pembroke. The part of town that still runs on well water and memory. The newcomer's guide →
Walks
Bay Farm
Open fields running down to Kingston Bay. Bring the dog and stay for the light. All the walks →
Bayside Trail & Tinkertown
Woods walking along the town's southern edge, where the shipwrights cut their timber. All the walks →
The bridge and the beach
The obvious one, and still the best. Walk the pilings, then take the sand south as far as the day allows. All the walks →
North Hill Marsh
Loops around a kettle pond that belongs to the wood ducks. All the walks →
Round Pond
A quiet mid-town loop through the woods to the water. All the walks →
Walk the flats
At a good low the bay empties and you can walk where boats floated six hours earlier. The timed windows are on the flats page. Walk the flats →
Lost
The Myles Standish Hotel
Boston investors built a grand resort on Standish Shore in 1871: golf course, weekly balls, and a 400-foot pier out to its own spring. Two houses made from its remains survive. All of Lost Duxbury →
Partridge Academy
The town's only secondary school for more than 80 years, built on a congressman's bequest in 1844. It burned in 1933; the Town Offices have governed from the dead school's site ever since. All of Lost Duxbury →
Powder Point School for Boys
A college-prep academy on King Caesar's former estate, 1893 to 1926. Its headmaster's house is still standing, and you know it already: it is the King Caesar House. All of Lost Duxbury →
The Ten Acre Yard
Ezra Weston II's shipyard on the Bluefish River, flagship of a shore that held close to 40 yards at the peak. The last Duxbury vessel launched in 1874 from what is now Shipyard Lane Beach. All of Lost Duxbury →
About this list
These are the same 38 entries plotted on the Living Chart, grouped and alphabetized here for anyone who'd rather scan than tap. Descriptions are unchanged from the chart itself; a couple of links have been pointed at pages that didn't exist when the chart was first built. Missing something that belongs here? Tell us.