The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.

17th century edit

18th century edit

 
Map of the Island of Nantucket, 1782, by Crèvecœur

19th century edit

  • 1810
    • Second Congregational Meeting House incorporated.[11]
    • Population: 6,807.[12]
  • 1814 – Nantucket declares neutrality in the US-British War of 1812.[13]
  • 1816 – May: Nantucket Gazette newspaper begins publication.[14]
  • 1817 – Fragment Society formed.[15]
  • 1820
    • Nantucket Mechanics' Social Library Society founded.[16]
    • Population: 7,266.[17]
  • 1821 – The Inquirer newspaper begins publication.[14]
  • 1823
    • Columbian Library Society founded.[16]
    • United Methodist Church built.[18]
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    1853 drawing of a Nantucket shark, by Jacques Burkhardt
    1827 – United Library Association[16] and Lancasterian school[6] founded.
  • 1834 – Nantucket Athenaeum incorporated.[18]
  • 1835
    • African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated.[19]
    • Silk Factory in business.[20]
  • 1836 – Ladies' Howard Society formed.[21]
  • 1838 - Nantucket High School established.
  • 1839 – Trinity Church built.[18]
  • 1840 – First Baptist Church built.[18]
  • 1846 – Fire.[3]
  • 1848 – Atlantic House hotel in business in Siasconset.[22]
  • 1850 - Sankaty Head Light built.
  • 1854 – Lightship Nantucket and Town Library[16] established.
  • 1855 - Death of Dorcas Honorable, Nantucket's last Native American Wampanoag Indian.
  • 1856
    • Nantucket Agricultural Society founded.[23]
    • Lighthouse rebuilt.[5]
  • 1864 – Josiah Freeman photography studio in business.[24]
  • 1866 – Union Benevolent Society founded.[15]
  • 1869 - Nantucket's last whaler sailed.[6]
  • 1873 – Nantucket Relief Association founded.[15]
  • 1875 – Civil War monument erected.[5]
  • 1877 – Sherburne Lyceum organized.[5]
  • 1881 – Nantucket Railroad built.
  • 1883 – Siasconset Union Chapel,[18] Nantucket Hotel, Surf-Side Hotel and Springfield Hotel built.[5]
  • 1886
  • 1892 – Point Breeze Hotel in business.[5]
  • 1894 – Nantucket Historical Association founded.[18]
  • 1895 – Goldenrod Literary and Debating Society founded.[26]

Original Nantucket Railroad reaches bankruptcy, Nantucket Central Railroad Company established

  • 1897 – Church of St. Mary-Our Lady of the Isle built.[18]

20th century edit

 
Nantucket, 1937

21st century edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Henry Barnard Worth (1901). Nantucket Lands and Landowners. Nantucket Historical Association.
  2. ^ a b c d Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Nantucket", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, hdl:2027/mdp.39015014440781
  3. ^ a b American Experience (2010). "Timeline: The History of Whaling in America". Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. WGBH Educational Foundation. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  4. ^ David Lowenthal (1956). "The Common and Undivided Lands of Nantucket". Geographical Review. 46 (3): 399–403. doi:10.2307/211888. JSTOR 211888.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j R.A. Douglas-Lithgow (1914), Nantucket: a History, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, OCLC 2989159, OL 6568122M
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nantucket" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 166.
  7. ^ Robert J. Leach (1950). "The First Two Quaker Meeting-Houses on Nantucket". Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  8. ^ H. Errol Coffin (1965). "The Second Congregational Meeting House (Unitarian-Universalist)". Historic Nantucket. 12. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  9. ^ a b George Rogers Taylor (1977). "Nantucket Oil Merchants & the American Revolution". Massachusetts Review. 18 (3): 581–606. JSTOR 25088773.
  10. ^ "William Rotch Papers". Barnstable, Massachusetts: Sturgis Library. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  11. ^ Sally Lamb (1970). "Mills on Nantucket". Historic Nantucket. 18. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  12. ^ Darby (1832). "Nantucket". In David Brewster (ed.). Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t2x352b0z.
  13. ^ Reginald Horsman (1981). "Nantucket's Peace Treaty with England in 1814". New England Quarterly. 54 (2): 180–198. doi:10.2307/364969. JSTOR 364969.
  14. ^ a b "Digital Historic Newspaper Archive". Nantucket Atheneum. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  15. ^ a b c d "Manuscript Collections of the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library". Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  16. ^ a b c d Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  17. ^ "Nantucket County and Town". Massachusetts Directory. Boston: John Hayward. 1835. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081763439.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h Research Library. "Guide to Historical Records and Genealogical Resources of Nantucket, Massachusetts". Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  19. ^ Myron Samuel Dudley (1902), Churches and pastors of Nantucket, Mass, Boston: David Clapp & Son, OL 14000106M
  20. ^ Centennial Catalogue of the Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1895, OL 13999275M
  21. ^ Isaac H. Folger (1875), Handbook of Nantucket, Nantucket: Island Review Office, OL 14010803M
  22. ^ "Sconset 02564". NHA Digital Exhibits. Nantucket Historical Association. 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  23. ^ James D. Alsop (2004). "Island Refashioning: The Nantucket Agricultural Society, 1856–1880". New England Quarterly. 77 (4): 563–587. JSTOR 1559727.
  24. ^ a b Edouard A. Stackpole (1987). "Early Photography on Nantucket". Historic Nantucket. 35. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  25. ^ "New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Company". LC Linked Data Service. USA: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  26. ^ William Root Bliss (1896), Quaint Nantucket, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, OCLC 407650
  27. ^ Linda Eisenmann, ed. (1998). Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. Greenwood. ISBN 0313293236.
  28. ^ Robert Hellman (2009). "Edward F. Sanderson: Father of the Nantucket Whaling Museum". Historic Nantucket. 59. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  29. ^ "About Murray's Toggery Shop". Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  30. ^ "About Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge". Massachusetts: Trustees of Reservations. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  31. ^ "US government approves first offshore wind farm". BBC News. April 28, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2013.

Further reading edit

Published in the 19th century
Published in the 20th century

External links edit