Weymouth
a town in Norfolk co., Mass., on the South Shore line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 12 miles S. E. of Boston. The town contains the villages of North Weymouth, East Weymouth, Weymouth Center, South Weymouth, Weymouth Heights, Nash, Lovells Corner, Old Spain, and Weymouth Landing. It is a seashore summer resort, but has extensive manufacturing and shipbuilding interests. The principal manufactures include boots, shoes, fertilizers, fireworks, hammocks, boxes, and clothing. There are daily and weekly newspapers, a National bank, electric lights, and street railways, public schools, public library.
It is the second oldest town in the State, having been incorporated Sept. 2, 1635.
Pop. (1910) 12,895; (1920) 15,057.