Pembroke

Few towns on Massachusetts’s South Shore have a history as closely tied to wooden shipbuilding on the North River as Pembroke. Incorporated in 1712, Pembroke developed in the watershed where Herring Brook joins the Indian Head River to form the North River. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the river supported a major regional shipbuilding industry, linking this inland community to Atlantic trade through the river’s route to Massachusetts Bay. Pembroke is now a residential South Shore town, where wooded neighborhoods, ponds and wetlands remain an important part of its setting. Its old river connections give the town a distinct place in the story of coastal Massachusetts. Move on to other webcams across the South Shore to compare coastal and inland settings around Pembroke.

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