Hingham Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Mary Power said the project to rebuild and raise the town pier by 3 feet has been in the works for years and could cost $5.5 million.

Article 20 in the warrant for this year’s annual Town Meeting on May 8 would appropriate up to $5,650,000 (reduced by any grant proceeds) to reconstruct and raise the wall height of town Pier Wharf.

The state supreme court has overruled a decision by the Hingham Conservation Commission rejecting a resident's plan for a 175-foot pier and dock at his ... Hingham man wins fight with town over pier.

(Hingham’s population in 1820 was 2,857, according to the 1893 book “History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts” — compared with 22,157 in 2010.) Advertisement.