Rexhame Beach & South River

Google Maps to Rexhame: http://bit.ly/rexhamebeach

The page is maintained by Kate Hannon, an American fine art photographer, and resident of Rexhame for the past decade. Contact her at kate@katehannon.com. Some of the images posted here, and others, are available for sale and licensing on Fine Art America. There is a link to the shop on the Kate Hannon Impressions FB page: https://www.facebook.com/KateHannonImpressions

The page has no connection to the Town of Marshfield or The Beach Commission. Marshfield Beach Supervisor Cindy Castro may be contacted at 781-831-1563.

Memorial Day to Labor Day: Admission by sticker (available at Town Hall) for local home owners and residents. Daily admission for non-residents: $15 weekdays; $20 weekends.

All are welcome to join and post photographs of our beautiful section of town.

The Rexhame-Humarock peninsula is the sixteenth largest barrier beach landform in Massachusetts. (A barrier beach is a a low-lying strip of land with a coastal beach and dune that is separated from the mainland by a river and marsh system.) It has an 84-foot-high moraine in the middle, one of only two barrier beach moraines on the east coast of the United States. Rexhame protects the Town of Marshfield, the tidal South River and its marshes from coastal storms and floods.

Rexhame means King's hamlet, or village. The area was settled by Winslows, Watermans, Bournes, and Beadles between 1640 and 1643. The first "occupants" of Rexhame Beach might have been cattle as a 1685 ordinance gave pasturage rights forever to those who lived adjacent to the beach.

The strong northeast storms that sweep the area make Rexhame the setting for many shipwrecks. The Minerva went sown in 1780. In 1885, the Agnes R. Bacon came ashore at Beadles' rock (yes, spelled with a "d" after Joseph Beadle) in a blizzard. In the Great Storm of 1898, the Myrtis H. Perry grounded 200 yards off the beach. It was this storm that broke through a new mouth for the North and South Rivers, closing the old one between Humarock and Rexhame. Parts of the Myrtis H. Perry came ashore during the Blizzard of 1978.

While full-time residents consider the area a world class, year round recreational area, our population swells from June through August with summer residents, renters and day-trippers.

Welcome to Rexhame. Enjoy and help preserve the beach, the river and the dunes. Protect our kids, dogs and wildlife by removing your litter. Thank you.