Manomet, Massachusetts
Manomet is a seaside village of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. It is named for the Wampanoag village of Manomet located among the Manomet Ponds (the later site of the Manomet Ponds Praying Town). Manomet has a Post Office in the business district whose ZIP code is 02345. Residents and businesses in this village that are non-Post Office box holders use Plymouth’s ZIP code of 02360.
Pilgrim Station, formerly the only operating nuclear power plant in Massachusetts, is located in Plymouth, north of Manomet. However, the “Control room operators at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, located in Plymouth, Massachusetts, shut down its reactor for the final time on Friday, May 31, 2019 at 5:28 p.m. The decision to shut down Pilgrim was the result of a number of financial factors, including low wholesale energy prices.”
Manomet is also home to Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, a global conservation and sustainability nonprofit organization.