Cohasset — A Norfolk County Exclave, the Fullest Lighthouse Story on the South Shore, and the Cluster's Most Affluent Town

Incorporated 1770 from Hingham, a Norfolk County Exclave, Built Around Minot's Ledge and a 24-Acre Historic Common

Cohasset was incorporated as an independent town in 1770, separating from Hingham after a century of being governed as part of it — confirmed by the town's own "A Very Brief History of Cohasset" page, Wikipedia's "Cohasset, Massachusetts" article, and cohassetcentralcemetery.com's "Cohasset's Break from Hingham." Settlement predates incorporation by roughly 140 years: colonists from Hingham (and, per the town's own history page, from "Wyndham, England") arrived in the 1630s, when the area was known as "Bare Cove" or "Hingham Plantation." Cohasset shows evidence of Indigenous habitation dating back 6,000-8,000 years, with the immediate pre-contact area occupied by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, and, per Wikipedia, Pokanoket peoples. The path to independence was gradual rather than a single event: by the late 1600s Cohasset residents were expanding eastward from Hingham's core settlement; in 1713 residents petitioned for their own second Meeting House; Cohasset became its own ecclesiastical precinct in 1717, with its own church and school; full incorporation followed in 1770. This is a slower, more gradual "town growing apart from its parent" story than Duxbury's, Marshfield's, or Scituate's founding narratives, and it carries a genuine colonial-jurisdiction distinction worth noting: Cohasset's parent town, Hingham, was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, not Plymouth Colony — unlike Duxbury, Marshfield, and Scituate, which all trace to Plymouth Colony. The town's name derives from a Massachusett-language word for the area, rendered differently across sources — Wikipedia gives "Conahasset," the town's own site gives "Quonahassit," cohassetcentralcemetery.com gives "Konahasset" — with all sources agreeing the meaning is approximately "a long, rocky place," genuinely apt given Cohasset's rocky, ledge-strewn coastline.

Cohasset's single most distinctive administrative fact is its county: it sits in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, not Plymouth County like Duxbury, Marshfield, and Scituate. The U.S. Census Bureau's own QuickFacts page is titled "Cohasset town, Norfolk County, Massachusetts," and Wikipedia explains why this is a genuine geographic oddity. Cohasset was originally part of Suffolk County; when Norfolk County was established in 1793, Cohasset was included in it, alongside Hingham and Hull, both also then part of Norfolk County. But in 1803, Hingham and Hull were transferred to Plymouth County while Cohasset was not — leaving Cohasset a Norfolk County exclave, physically cut off from the rest of Norfolk County by Plymouth County towns (Hingham to its north and west, Scituate on its other landward sides). Norfolk County itself has no county-government functions in the modern era, since Massachusetts abolished most county governments, so this exclave status is best presented as a genuinely distinctive historical and civics curiosity — an island of Norfolk County surrounded by Plymouth County towns — rather than something that meaningfully affects day-to-day governance today. Geographically, Cohasset sits about 20 miles southeast of Boston and about 12 miles east of Braintree per Wikipedia, meaningfully closer to Boston than Scituate (25 miles), Marshfield (about 29 miles), or Duxbury (low-to-mid 30s). At 31.4 square miles total, only 9.8 square miles is land and 21.7 square miles (68.9%) is water, an even more water-dominant ratio than Scituate's own already-unusual roughly 45% water share, and by far the most water-dominant town in this cluster. The coastline includes Cohasset Cove, "The Gulf," Straits Pond, Little Harbor (containing Beach Island), and Cohasset Harbor itself, plus a bird sanctuary and three named bay beaches; the town also contains parts of Wompatuck State Park and the Whitney and Thayer Woods Reservation. Population is genuinely small and slow-growing relative to the rest of this cluster: 8,381 at the 2020 Census, with the Census Bureau's own July 1, 2025 estimate at 8,461, just 0.8% growth — the slowest of any town documented in this cluster so far (Scituate grew 3.1%, Marshfield about 3.9% over comparable windows). A direct search for a Cohasset, MA DataUSA.io profile in this research turned up nothing at all — only Cohasset, MN and Cohasset, CA profiles — a different failure mode than the internally-implausible population figures DataUSA returned for Duxbury, Marshfield, and Scituate; if a Cohasset, MA DataUSA profile does surface later, its figures should be independently verified against the Census QuickFacts numbers above before use.

Minot's Ledge Light is Cohasset's best-known landmark and the fullest, most dramatic lighthouse story in this entire South Shore cluster — Scituate's own research file explicitly deferred the full telling of it here, noting the light "is most commonly associated with neighboring Cohasset" even though the ledge sits on the Cohasset/Scituate boundary. The first tower, designed by Captain William H. Swift, was an experimental "iron pile" structure: nine wrought-iron pilings, each roughly 60 feet long, drilled and cemented into the submerged ledge, built on the theory that waves would pass harmlessly through an open frame rather than battering a solid tower. Construction began in 1847; the light was first lit January 1, 1850, at a cost of about $39,000. It proved dangerously unstable from the start — keeper Isaac Dunham reported it swayed "like a drunken man," with vibrations severe enough to fling dishes from tables. During a severe nor'easter on April 16-17, 1851, with the head keeper ashore, assistant keepers Joseph Wilson and Joseph Antoine remained on the tower and sent a final written message ashore: "The beacon cannot last any longer. She is shaking a good three feet each way as I write." The tower collapsed into the sea around 1:00 a.m.; both keepers died, Antoine's body washing ashore at Nantasket Beach and Wilson reportedly surviving the initial collapse only to die of exposure on nearby Gull Rock before rescue arrived. Minot's Ledge had already caused an estimated 80 vessels and 400 lives lost by the 1750s, leading author Edward Rowe Snow to call it "the most dangerous beacon in America." The replacement, designed by Colonel Joseph G. Totten and built under the on-site supervision of Captain Barton S. Alexander, took the opposite engineering approach: a solid, interlocking granite tower. Quincy granite — quarried in Quincy, not Cohasset's own local granite (see below) — was shipped to Government Island in Cohasset, where over 3,500 tons were hand-chiseled into roughly 1,079 interlocking dovetailed blocks, assembled and test-fitted on the island, then moved by oxen to waiting vessels for installation at the ledge, work that could proceed only at low tide in calm seas; one source reports just 157, 130, and 208 hours of actual construction time across the 1855-1857 seasons. A construction vessel, the New Empire, was wrecked in 1853, destroying scaffolding and delaying the project further; foundation stones weighed two tons each, and the bottom 40 feet of the tower is solid granite. Captain Michael Neptune Brennock served as a safety lifeguard during construction, and only proven swimmers were employed. Total cost ran to approximately $300,000, among the most expensive American lighthouses built up to that time; the tower was test-lit August 2, 1860, and officially established November 15, 1860. Height is given inconsistently across sources — 114 feet by one measure, 97 feet by another, with 89 feet of masonry per at least one source — so this page hedges it as approximately 100-114 feet tall, depending on measurement baseline, rather than asserting one precise figure. The tower has withstood every major Atlantic storm since 1860 and is recognized as an American Society of Civil Engineers National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

The light's flash pattern gave rise to its popular nickname: it flashes 1-4-3 (one flash, then four, then three), a sequence widely read locally as the number of letters in "I / Love / You," earning it the nickname "the I Love You lighthouse" or simply "143." The current flash characteristic dates to an 1894 Fresnel-lens installation. Local legend, per a claim made by the family of Assistant Keeper Winfield Scott Thompson in 1915, holds that Thompson deliberately arranged the pattern to send a nightly "I love you" message to loved ones ashore — this page treats that origin story explicitly as legend and family claim, not verified engineering intent, the same category of care Scituate's own file applied to its "Army of Two" legend. A separate, genuinely verifiable layer of the story is better documented: when the U.S. Coast Guard moved to standardize lighthouse flash-signal patterns nationally in the 1940s, Cohasset resident Henry "Bim" G. Simonds successfully lobbied to preserve Minot's Ledge's distinctive 1-4-3 pattern rather than let it be replaced with a standardized signal — a dated, named-individual civic-preservation story, and the stronger fact to lean on where something more solidly confirmed is needed. The "143" symbol is described as deeply embedded in South Shore cultural identity, appearing on local merchandise and bumper stickers, and reportedly used by couples timing marriage proposals to the beacon's flash sequence; it also ties to Cohasset Punch, a real rum-based cocktail that reportedly debuted in the 1890s at the residence of actor William H. Crane, whose label has featured an image of Minot's Ledge Light since 1899 (the drink was discontinued in the late 1980s and reportedly revived in 2024, though current commercial availability should be independently reconfirmed before citing it as an ongoing product). The light was fully automated in 1947, ending the era of resident keepers. The U.S. Coast Guard declared it excess federal property in 2009, and when no qualifying government or nonprofit entity claimed it, the lighthouse was sold at public auction on June 25, 2014, to Bobby Sager, a philanthropist and former chairman of Polaroid, for $222,000. The tower remains privately owned by Sager, closed to public access (it sits roughly a mile offshore), but continues to operate as an active private aid to navigation. Although the tower itself can't be visited, the lighthouse keeper's dwelling and a replica lantern room housing the light's retired third-order Fresnel lens are preserved on Government Island in Cohasset, along with a fog bell and iron "construction rings" from the tower's original assembly; a 1987-1989 restoration project is reported to have cost over $200,000, and memorial plaques honoring keepers Wilson and Antoine were placed on the ocean floor near the site in 2007. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Government Island itself carries history beyond its role staging the Minot's Ledge Light project. The federal government acquired 7.3 acres on the island in 1858 specifically as a staging site for constructing the second tower, per the North and South Rivers Watershed Association's own listing. Before European contact, the Massachusett people maintained a village here they called Quonahassit ("long rocky place"); during the colonial period the island served as a hub for fishing, shipbuilding, and farming, and a Town Pier was established in the early 20th century. Today the island is a public park, open dawn to dusk, with permit parking at 94 Border Street, additional roadside parking at Lawrence Wharf, picnic tables, a boat ramp, ADA accessibility, a small operating fishing wharf, and leashed dogs permitted; a self-guided walking route called "The Captains' Walk" runs along the shoreline with 10 historic markers, with signage updated in 2025. Historic structures on-site — the lighthouse keeper's residence, the replica Minot's Ledge lantern room, the Cohasset Harbormaster's headquarters, and the Cohasset Sailing Club building — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, per NSRWA, under a separate 1994 listing distinct from the 1996-listed Cohasset Common Historic District covered below; the two districts and their listing years should not be conflated. This is a genuinely separate story from Cohasset's own, much less-documented local granite-cutting operation at Quarry Point: per cohassetcentralcemetery.com's "Storied Rocks of Cohasset," around 1840 Cohasset had an active stone-cutting business at Quarry Point, where workers cut large granite blocks and moved them via a dedicated railway to waiting sloops, with iron cogs and drill holes still visible at the site today. No specific, dated account ties Quarry Point granite to any single named famous structure, unlike the well-documented Quincy-granite-for-Minot's-Ledge connection at Government Island — these are two distinct granite stories and should not be blended into one narrative. Cohasset's coastline and near-shore waters carry numerous other named hazards with real wreck and fishing history: Grampus, a shallow reef submerged at half tide, described as having caused more shipwrecks in the area than any other single ledge (and the reef that wrecked the Brig St. John, above); West Shag and East Shag, with West Shag identified as a wreck site; Hogshead Rock, historically used for cod fishing; and Black Ledge, Sutton Rock, Gull Ledge, and Inner/Outer Minot.

Cohasset Common anchors the town's historic village center: a National Register-listed historic district added in 1996, centered on the town common and bounded by Highland Avenue, North Main Street, William B. Long Jr. Road, and Robert E. Jason Road (boundary detail per Wikipedia, accessed via search-result synthesis after a direct fetch attempt hit a rate-limit error). The district covers 24 acres and includes 49 historically significant properties out of 54 total structures, mostly houses, churches, and the town hall built between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, plus multiple war memorials. The common land itself was established in 1670, a century before the town's 1770 incorporation; Main Street and Highland Avenue were both formally laid out as roads in 1685; the first meeting house was built in 1717. A separate, current, unresolved civic story is worth flagging: per South Shore Times (dated June 22, 2026), Cohasset is studying a proposed "Village Local Historic District" that would extend historic-review protections to Cohasset Village's commercial and civic core, an area that has served as the town's commercial and civic hub since the late 1700s but is not currently covered by local historic-district protections. A Select Board-created study committee, chaired by Woody Chittick, engaged the Barrett Planning Group as a consultant, with preservation planner Jennifer Doherty quoted on the importance of community engagement; a potential Town Meeting vote is anticipated for fall 2026 and, per Massachusetts law governing local historic districts, would require a two-thirds majority to pass. This should be described as an active proposal under study, not a settled or adopted district. Cohasset Village has also served as a genuine, multi-decade filming location for at least five real productions: The Witches of Eastwick (1987), whose production reportedly chose Cohasset after its originally-intended Rhode Island location fell through when locals objected to the script; HouseSitter (1992), whose fictional town "Dobbs Mill" was filmed in Cohasset even though the film's specific featured house was purpose-built (and later demolished) in Concord; The Finest Hours (2016), which filmed scenes in Cohasset in December 2014; Thoroughbreds (2017); and Confess, Fletch (2022), the best-documented of the five, filmed primarily at "the Oaks Estate," a 45-room waterfront mansion on Margin Street owned by Gerry Butler, redressed as the fictional "Mayflower Yacht Club" and starring Jon Hamm, Marcia Gay Harden, Kyle MacLachlan, Roy Wood Jr., and John Slattery. The Oaks Estate alone has hosted Witches of Eastwick, Thoroughbreds, and Confess, Fletch across decades, making it a genuine, recurring, real-world filming location rather than a one-off.

Cohasset's storm history includes both the regional Portland Gale of November 26-27, 1898 — which produced a roughly ten-foot storm surge in Cohasset harbor, per Wikipedia's own account, part of a storm that killed more than 400 people regionally and sank more than 150 boats and ships including the SS Portland with all 192 aboard — and a much graver, Cohasset-specific tragedy: the wreck of the Brig St. John. On October 7, 1849, the St. John, an Irish immigrant brig carrying 143 people fleeing the Great Famine out of Galway, was driven by a severe storm onto "the Grampuses" while attempting to reach shelter in Scituate Harbor. Approximately 98 people died; only nine of sixteen crew and eleven passengers survived, and only 45 bodies were ever recovered. The dead were buried in a trench-style common grave in Cohasset Central Cemetery, with Catholic rites conducted by Father John T. Roddan, and the mass grave remains unmarked to this day. In 1915 the Ancient Order of Hibernians erected a stone Celtic cross in the cemetery in the victims' memory, though it is not located directly at the grave site itself. A baby girl was found alive, wrapped in a rolled-up mattress, by a man named John Lothrop, and was later adopted by a family in nearby Norwell. This is Cohasset's own, distinct Irish-immigration-era maritime disaster, told here with the gravity a mass-casualty tragedy involving famine refugees deserves — it is not a version of, and should not be folded into, Scituate's separate Irish-moss-harvesting "Irish Riviera" heritage story, which is a later, economic-livelihood story with no connection to this shipwreck. On current coastal-resilience work, Cohasset received two FY24 Massachusetts CZM Coastal Resilience Grants totaling $447,770 ($220,000 for wastewater-infrastructure flood resiliency, $227,770 for James Brook Watershed flood-pathway mitigation design), building on an earlier 2022 award of $161,925; vulnerable locations named include the Wastewater Treatment Plant and Influent Pump Station in Jacob's Meadow and flood-pathway concerns around Cohasset Cove, the James Brook watershed, Summer Street, and Cohasset Harbor. Public engagement ran through a June 26, 2024 forum, and current design-phase status past that date was not confirmed in research. Cohasset was notably not named in the June 2026 FEMA pre-disaster-mitigation round that made neighboring Scituate ($1.1 million, Cedar Point seawall) and Hull ($1.1 million, Harborview Road shoreline protection) each eligible recipients — Cohasset's own resilience funding is a separate, smaller-dollar state funding stream, not evidence of exclusion from a comparable federal program. This page does not assert a specific FEMA flood-zone designation or Community Rating System class for Cohasset, since neither was confirmed in research; Marshfield's own confirmed Class 7 CRS rating should not be assumed to apply here.

Massachusetts' Proposition 2½ levy-cap mechanism, already explained in this cluster's Duxbury research, applies identically to Cohasset. The best-confirmed figure is FY2025: $11.58 per $1,000 of assessed value, per massachusettsalmanac.com's Fiscal Year 2025 comparison table, which lists Cohasset at 11.58 alongside Duxbury at 10.14, Marshfield at 9.90, and Scituate at 9.99 — meaning Cohasset carries the highest FY2025 tax rate of any town confirmed so far in this cluster. This figure is carried forward from the same source already cited and cross-confirmed by Marshfield's and Scituate's own prior research files, rather than freshly re-verified with a detailed-table fetch in this specific pass. FY2023, FY2024, and FY2026 Cohasset-specific rates could not be confirmed in this research and should not be assumed or interpolated; a buyer needing those figures should check the Massachusetts Department of Revenue Division of Local Services "Tax Rates by Class" database or the Town of Cohasset Assessors' Office directly. Associated figures are broadly, if not perfectly, consistent: Ownwell's own trends page (dated April 13, 2026) gives a median effective property-tax rate of 1.16% (above both the Massachusetts state median of 1.15% and the U.S. median of 1.02%), a median home value of $1,098,300, and a median annual tax bill of $12,718 — by a wide margin the highest median annual tax bill of any town in this cluster's research (compare Scituate's $8,417 and Marshfield's $6,676). Census QuickFacts' own median home value (2020-2024 ACS vintage) instead gives $1,318,900, meaningfully higher than Ownwell's figure though directionally consistent, both well above $1 million; this page treats these as two credible sources reflecting different methodologies and specifies which is which rather than blending them into one unsourced number.

On the market itself, Zillow's data (reflecting a May 31, 2026 data date) puts average home value (ZHVI) at $1,474,056, up 5.2% year-over-year, with a median list price of $1,891,667, 34 homes for sale, and "typical days to pending" not available on the page. This ZHVI figure is, by a wide margin, the highest average home value confirmed for any town in this cluster's research so far — Scituate's was $1,040,218 and Marshfield's was $803,822 — directly consistent with Cohasset's confirmed income and tax data as the most affluent town in this cluster. Redfin maintains a dedicated Cohasset housing-market page, but it could not be successfully fetched in this research (a 403 error, the same obstacle hit for Duxbury, Marshfield, and Scituate) and should be pulled directly for an independent median-sale-price and days-on-market figure. A premium waterfront micro-neighborhood, variously called the "Gold Coast" or "Golden Triangle," runs along Jerusalem Road, Atlantic Avenue (north of Cohasset Village), and Nichols Road, per coastalneighborhoods.com (a real-estate-marketing source, so figures here should be read as directional): listings there have ranged from 2,153 to 8,175 square feet, priced $1.9 million to $5.3 million, with a historical median list price around $1.99 million and roughly $706 per square foot; as of July 2026, four properties were actively listed with an average 61 days on market. This micro-area includes two resident-only beaches, Black Rock Beach and Sandy Beach, both requiring resident parking stickers. Overall, Cohasset reads honestly as the most expensive, most affluent town in this South Shore cluster documented so far, both town-wide and at its highest-end waterfront micro-market.

Schools are genuinely solid but should not be inflated into "best in the cluster." Per Niche's current rankings, Cohasset Public Schools carry an overall grade of A-, ranking #47 of 217 Best School Districts in Massachusetts — essentially tied with Scituate's #45, meaningfully behind Duxbury's #20, and ahead of Marshfield's #61. Cohasset's genuinely standout figure is its #13-of-232 statewide "Best Teachers" ranking, the strongest teacher-quality figure documented for any town in this cluster, backed by a #342-of-11,038 national "Best Teachers in America" ranking. Cohasset's county comparison (#11 of 26 Best School Districts, #7 of 28 Best Teachers) is against Norfolk County peers, not Plymouth County peers, since Cohasset is the only town in this cluster in a different county — these figures should not be directly compared to Duxbury's, Marshfield's, or Scituate's own Plymouth County rankings as if drawn from the same pool. District schools are Joseph Osgood Elementary, Deer Hill Elementary, and a combined Cohasset Middle-High School campus; grade-span detail carries a minor cross-source discrepancy (Wikipedia describes Osgood as pre-K through grade 2 and Deer Hill as grades 3-5, while the Massachusetts DOE's own 2023-24 enrollment data describes Osgood as "PreK-Grade 4" and Deer Hill as "Grades 3-5") that should be verified directly with Cohasset Public Schools before publishing a specific grade-range claim. Total 2023-24 district enrollment, per the DOE, was 1,406 students (Osgood 389, Deer Hill 321, Middle School grades 6-8 at 290, High School grades 9-12 at 406); the district is 91.3% White versus a 53.0% statewide average, presented factually rather than editorially. Teams are called the Skippers, colors navy blue and white; South Shore Technical High School is available as a regional vocational option, the same school Scituate's own students may also attend. A live, current, dollar-specific school-finance story: the Cohasset School Committee unanimously approved a $24.8 million FY2026 school budget on April 2, 2025, after closing an approximately $1.4 million funding shortfall through staff reductions and the reinstatement of kindergarten tuition fees — meaning Cohasset currently charges tuition for kindergarten enrollment as one budget-balancing measure, worth surfacing accurately though the exact current tuition amount was not confirmed in this research and should be reconfirmed directly with the district.

Demographically, Census QuickFacts (2020-2024 ACS vintage) gives a median household income of $199,306 — by a wide margin the highest in this cluster (compare Scituate's $136,732 and Marshfield's $125,986), independently cross-confirmed by massachusetts-demographics.com, which reports the identical $199,306 figure for 2024. Per capita income is $113,599; the poverty rate is 3.0% of persons per Census QuickFacts (a separate massachusetts-demographics.com figure of 1.7% of families measures a different population and should not be presented as conflicting). Homeownership runs at 83.0%, consistent with an affluent, low-turnover, family-oriented town; median gross rent is $2,755. Educational attainment is high: 97.8% high-school-graduate-or-higher and 76.7% bachelor's-degree-or-higher for the population 25 and older. Mean commute time is 37.2 minutes; a detailed commute-mode-split (drive-alone, work-from-home, carpool percentages) was not available with the same granularity obtained for other towns in this cluster, since no Massachusetts-specific DataUSA.io profile for Cohasset could be confirmed to exist. Race and ethnicity figures carry a modest, real discrepancy across vintages: the 2020 Census (per Wikipedia) gives 96% White, while Census QuickFacts' more current 2020-2024 ACS vintage gives 93.8% White alone and 4.1% Hispanic/Latino — best read as different survey vintages rather than a conflict to resolve. Cohasset has its own in-town MBTA Greenbush Line station, Cohasset station, serving the same line already documented in Scituate's own research file (2007-restored service after a 48-year gap, a reported $534 million restoration cost, and the system's lowest-ridership commuter-rail line as of 2024 data) — this page cross-references Scituate's file for that shared history rather than re-deriving it, simply noting Cohasset is a second stop on the same line, giving it direct in-town commuter-rail access unlike Duxbury or Marshfield. Cohasset's MBTA Communities Act compliance status was not a focus of this research pass and should be independently checked before publishing a claim either way, and this page does not assert one.

Named local businesses, verified via direct research: on the harbor, per the Town of Cohasset's own Cohasset Harbor page, Cohasset Harbor Marina offers 75 recreational-boater slips with a current waitlist and an on-site boat brokerage; five municipal town docks (Parker Avenue, Margin Street Dock, Lawrence Wharf, Town Landing, and the Government Island Pier) are managed by the Harbormaster; the Cohasset Sailing Club, established 1960, offers roughly 80 dinghy storage spaces and youth/adult sailing programs; the Cohasset Yacht Club, established 1894, offers slips, junior sailing, and racing programs (781-383-9633); and the Cohasset Maritime Institute runs rowing programs at Mariners' Park. No dedicated, Cohasset-based bait-and-tackle shop was confirmed in this research — anglers appear to rely on shops in neighboring Scituate or Hull, and no such shop name should be invented for Cohasset. Restaurants, per a real-estate-agent dining guide (cross-check recommended before publishing, since restaurant listings turn over) include Salty Days, The Red Lion Tavern (71 South Main Street — some sources render this "The Red Lion Inn," almost certainly the same establishment, but the restaurant's own currently-preferred name should be confirmed directly), Bia Bistro, Olde Salt House, The Corner Stop Eatery, The Blue Oar, 5 South Main, The Barrell, Atlantic Bagel, and the Cohasset Lobster Pound at 82 Border Street (the former Mill River Marine Boat Yard property); Oro, sometimes listed alongside these, is actually located in neighboring Scituate and should not be listed as a Cohasset business. Real estate brokerages with a confirmed Cohasset presence include William Raveis Real Estate and Coldwell Banker Realty, both maintaining dedicated Cohasset office listings. For retirement content, the Estates at Cohasset, a Toll Brothers-developed 55+ active-adult community, was confirmed as a real, named local development.