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Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Fun fact: There is not a single traffic light on the Island of Nantucket.
Nantucket includes: Coatue, Madaket, Polpis, Quidnet, Sankaty Bluff, Siasconset, Surfside, Tuckernuck, and Wauwinet.
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Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

Coffin House, Built 1686, Oldest House at Nantucket, Nantucket, Mass.
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Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

Nantucket Island, Mass.
Folger House, Built by one of the Old Whaling Captains, the Only Three Story Building in Nantucket, Mass.
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History, News and Stories of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

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1641 - Nantucket is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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In 1659, nine men invested "the sum of thirty pounds...and also two beaver hats, one for myself and one for my wife", to the then owner, Thomas Mayhew, for the purchase of the Nantucket island.
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1671 - Nantucket is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1676 - November 16 - 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass
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1795 - Bank of Nantucket Established
In 1795, Bank of Nantucket was established with capital of $100,000.
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Volume 3
Author Sir David Brewster
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1820 - November 20 – After the sinking of the American whaleship Essex of Nantucket by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats.
They eventually resort, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive.
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November 20, 1820
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1841 - August 11 (Wednesday) Frederick Douglass spoke in front of the Anti-Slavery Convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
August 11, 1841
1841 - October 3 - An October gale, the worst of record for Nantucket, MA, caught the Cape Cod fishing fleet at sea. Forty ships were driven ashore on Cape Cod, and 57 men perished from the town of Truro alone.
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October 3, 1841
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1845 - NANTUCKET TOWN. [Pop. 9,012. Inc. 1687.]
The town-of Nantucket (marked n) is situated at the west end of a sort of bay, on the north side of the island, and there are few other houses,... Read MORE...
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1854 - Nantucket
Nantucket, a post-town, port of entry, and seat of justice of Nantucket county, Massachusetts, is situated at the entrance of a deep bay on the N.... Read MORE...
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1890 Nantucket Massachusetts
Nantucket, the town, embraces the entire island of the same name, and the smaller islands of Tuckernuck, Muskegat, with the three Gravelly Islands;... Read MORE...
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1895 - Nantucket
Nantucket, a port of entry, and the capital of Nantucket co., Mass., is on the N. shore of the island of the same name, about 56 miles E.S.E. of New... Read MORE...
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1906
Nantucket, a banking post=town, capital of Nantucket co., Mass., is on the N. shore of the island of the same name, about 56 miles ESE. of New... Read MORE...
1909 - Six Killed In Crash at Sea.
The White Star liner Republic, rammed by the Italian liner Florida, in the fog off Nantucket, Mass., when six persons were killed, sank after being... Read MORE...
1934 - SEVEN SAILORS PERISH IN COLLISION OF LINER WITH LIGHTSHIP DURING THICK FOG.
Nantucket, Mass., May 16. - The 43,000-ton liner Olympic, groping its way through a heavy fog, crashed broadside into the Nantucket Lightship... Read MORE...
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1952 - February 18 - Winds gusting to 72 mph created mountainous snowdrifts of the 18 inches of snow which buried Nantucket and Hyannis. A barometric pressure reading of 29.02 inches was reported at the center of the storm.
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1956 - July 25 - The Andrea Doria sank in dense fog near Nantucket Lightship, MA.
The ship was rammed by the Swedish-American liner, Stockholm, forty-five miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Fifty-two persons drowned, or were... Read MORE...
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1965 - August 29 - A national record for the month of August was established when 2.5 inches of snow fell atop Mount Washington NH.
Temperatures in New England dipped to 39 degrees at Nantucket MA, and to 25 degrees in Vermont. For many location it was the earliest freeze of... Read MORE...
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