The Hull Light Plant's lines extended along this stretch of Nantasket Avenue along the right, looking southerly. Included upon this pole are cables for the busy trolley system that extended from one end of this thin, coastal Boston-area town to the other. The famed and historic Paragon Park was a distance further down on the right. Along the left are tapered, beefy square wooden poles which supported fire alarm wires on top and toll connections owned by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. The latter circuits were overhead until some time in the 1920s when placed underground. When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts constructed the 1.5 mile, four-lane highway that extended from Hingham to near the rear of the former Paragon Park in the mid-1930s, these important phone circuits went underground, along the northerly side of the forementioned highway. These were toll connections within lead-sheathed cable (which I understand still remains in service) with paper-insulated copper strands and led to neighboring Hingham and points north (including Boston which was about 15 miles away).

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