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History of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1641 - Nantucket is settled
  
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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
  
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• 1676 - November 16 - 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass
  
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  Coffin House, Built 1686, Oldest House at Nantucket, Nantucket, Mass.
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  Birthplace of Maria Mitchell, Erected 1790, Nantucket, Mass.
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• 1795 - Bank of Nantucket Established
  In 1795, Bank of Nantucket was established with capital of $100,000.
  
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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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•  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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• 1841 - August 11 (Wednesday) Frederick Douglass spoke in front of the Anti-Slavery Convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
  
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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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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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  Broadway, Siasconset, Mass.
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  Ash Lane, Nantucket, Mass.
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  "Goin Shearin" Main Street, Nantucket, Mass.
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  Point Breeze Hotel, 1905
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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...
  
  
  
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  Unitarian Church (South Tower), 1906
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•  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...
  
  
  
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  Wm. Barnes Jr. Residence, Nantucket, Mass.
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  Broadway, Nantucket, Mass., 1910
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  Cliff Beach Bath House
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  Old Jail
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  Sankaty Light
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  The Scallop Fleet
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  Springfield House
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  Little Cottage Down by the Sea
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  Stone Alley
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  The Upper Square, Main Street
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  A Game on Sea Cliff Field
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  Congregational Church
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  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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  The Hawthorn Lane, Sunset, Nantucket Island, Mass.
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  Orange Street from South Tower
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  Sconset Train, Known as the 20th Century Limited
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  A Street of Many Turns, Nantucket Island, Mass.
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  Old Homestead and Garden, Nantucket, Mass, 1924
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  Upper Main Street
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  White Elephant Hotel
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  The Old Ivy Cottage on Liberty Street, Nantucket Island, Mass.
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  The Old Mill at Sunset
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  Quince Street
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  Main Street, Nantucket, Mass.
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•  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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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...