Pilot | The Mystery of the Beal Street Burial Tombs at Bare Cove Park
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In 1832, Hingham acquired a 43-acre parcel on Beal Street and erected it's third Almshouse. This site became known as the Town Farm. The occupants included the elderly, the infirmed, the indigent, the mentally ill, the homeless, the criminal, and the unemployed. Many of the residents of the Almshouse, as well as other Hingham citizens, died there and were buried on the property.