The following is a timeline of the history of Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.
17th century[edit]
- 1621 – Island granted to Plymouth Company of London.[1]
- 1641 – Island bought by Thomas Mayhew.[2]
- 1659
- 1660 – Island becomes part of the Province of New York.[2]
- 1661 – Settlers arrive from Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts.[2]
- 1665 – Maddequet Ditch (canal) dug.
- 1671 – Town incorporated.[5]
- 1672 – Town relocated to Wescoe from Madaket.[6]
- 1673 – Town named "Sherburne."[5]
- 1683 – Island becomes part of Dukes County, Province of New York.[6]
- 1686 – Jethro Coffin house built.[6]
- 1692 – Island becomes part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.[2]
- 1695 – Nantucket County established.[6]
18th century[edit]
- 1712 – Sperm whaling begins.[6]
- 1713 – Tuckernuck Island becomes part of Nantucket County.[6]
- 1732 – Quaker meeting house built.[7]
- 1746
- Lighthouse and East Mill constructed.[8]
- The Old Mill an historic windmill.[6]
- 1774 – Population: 4,545.[5]
- 1775 – Nantucket tentatively states their neutrality during the American Revolutionary War.[9][10]
- 1779 – April: British loyalists raid island.[9]
- 1784 - Great Point Light established.[6]
- 1795 – Town of Sherburne renamed "Nantucket."[5]
19th century[edit]
- 1810
- 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
- 1821 – The Inquirer newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1823
1853 drawing of a Nantucket shark, by Jacques Burkhardt - 1834 – Nantucket Athenaeum incorporated.[18]
- 1835
- 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
- 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
- Electric telegraph installed.[5]
- New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Company formed.[25]
- Wyer's Art Store in business (approximate date).[24]
- 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]
- 1901 – Brant Point Light rebuilt.
- 1902 – Maria Mitchell Association founded.
- 1908 – Maria Mitchell Observatory built.[27]
- 1910 – Population: 2,962 (county).[6]
- 1917 - Nantucket Central Railroad Company closes after all available trains were commandeered by the United States Army to serve in the Western Front of World War One
- 1923 – Sankaty Head Golf Club opens.
- 1925 – Nobska (steamship) begins operating in region.
- 1930 – Whaling Museum opens.[28]
- 1940 – Straight Wharf Theatre established.[15]
- 1945 – Murray's Toggery Shop in business.[29]
- 1956 – July 25: SS Andrea Doria wrecked offshore.
- 1966 – Nantucket Historic District established.
- 1970 – Population: 3,774.
- 1972 – Hy-Line ferry begins operating.
- 1974 – Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge established (approximate date).[30]
- 1975 – Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge established.
- 1976 – December 15: MV Argo Merchant wrecked offshore.
- 1990 – Population: 6,012.
- 1995 – Nantucket Regional Transit Authority begins operating.
- 1997 – Bill Delahunt becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 10th congressional district.
- 1999
- October 31: EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes south of island, 217 dead.
- African Meeting House restored.[18]
21st century[edit]
- 2001 – Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound organized.
- 2010
- 2011 – William R. Keating becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 10th congressional district.
See also[edit]
- History of Nantucket
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Nantucket County, Massachusetts
References[edit]
- ^ Henry Barnard Worth (1901). Nantucket Lands and Landowners. Nantucket Historical Association.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ David Lowenthal (1956). "The Common and Undivided Lands of Nantucket". Geographical Review. 46 (3): 399–403. doi:10.2307/211888. JSTOR 211888.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 166.
- ^ Robert J. Leach (1950). "The First Two Quaker Meeting-Houses on Nantucket". Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ H. Errol Coffin (1965). "The Second Congregational Meeting House (Unitarian-Universalist)". Historic Nantucket. 12. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ a b George Rogers Taylor (1977). "Nantucket Oil Merchants & the American Revolution". Massachusetts Review. 18 (3): 581–606. JSTOR 25088773.
- ^ "William Rotch Papers". Barnstable, Massachusetts: Sturgis Library. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ Sally Lamb (1970). "Mills on Nantucket". Historic Nantucket. 18. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ Darby (1832). "Nantucket". In David Brewster (ed.). Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t2x352b0z.
- ^ Reginald Horsman (1981). "Nantucket's Peace Treaty with England in 1814". New England Quarterly. 54 (2): 180–198. doi:10.2307/364969. JSTOR 364969.
- ^ a b "Digital Historic Newspaper Archive". Nantucket Atheneum. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Manuscript Collections of the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library". Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ "Nantucket County and Town". Massachusetts Directory. Boston: John Hayward. 1835. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081763439.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Myron Samuel Dudley (1902), Churches and pastors of Nantucket, Mass, Boston: David Clapp & Son, OL 14000106M
- ^ Centennial Catalogue of the Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1895, OL 13999275M
- ^ Isaac H. Folger (1875), Handbook of Nantucket, Nantucket: Island Review Office, OL 14010803M
- ^ "Sconset 02564". NHA Digital Exhibits. Nantucket Historical Association. 2009. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ James D. Alsop (2004). "Island Refashioning: The Nantucket Agricultural Society, 1856–1880". New England Quarterly. 77 (4): 563–587. JSTOR 1559727.
- ^ a b Edouard A. Stackpole (1987). "Early Photography on Nantucket". Historic Nantucket. 35. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ "New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Company". LC Linked Data Service. USA: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ William Root Bliss (1896), Quaint Nantucket, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, OCLC 407650
- ^ Linda Eisenmann, ed. (1998). Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. Greenwood. ISBN 0313293236.
- ^ Robert Hellman (2009). "Edward F. Sanderson: Father of the Nantucket Whaling Museum". Historic Nantucket. 59. Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ "About Murray's Toggery Shop". Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ "About Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge". Massachusetts: Trustees of Reservations. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ^ "US government approves first offshore wind farm". BBC News. April 28, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Published in the 19th century
- "Nantucket". Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh. 1822. hdl:2027/yale.39002088370268.
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Nantucket", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- William Darby; Theodore Dwight Jr. (1834), "Nantucket", New gazetteer of the United States of America (2nd ed.), Hartford: E. Hopkins
- Obed Macy (1835), The history of Nantucket, Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Co., OL 6905739M 2nd ed., 1880
- "Nantucket County". Massachusetts Business Directory. Boston: George Adams. 1856.
- John Hayward (1857), "Nantucket", New England Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Boston: Otis Clapp, OCLC 3441657
- "Nantucket". Lippincott's Magazine. 1868.
- Richard Luce Pease (1876), Guide to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, printers, OL 18095063M
- Frederic Denison (1879), "Nantucket", Illustrated New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Providence: J.A. & R.A. Reid, OCLC 22869619
- Joseph Sabin, ed. (1880). "Nantucket". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 12. New York. OCLC 13972268.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Edward K. Godfrey (1882), The Island of Nantucket: what it was and what it is, Boston: Lee and Shepard, OL 22961957M
- Robert Grieve (1889), "Nantucket", Illustrated Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Taunton, New Bedford, Fall River (2nd ed.), Providence, Rhode Island: J.A. & R.A. Reid, OCLC 10563002
- M.S. Dudley (1895). Nantucket Centennial Celebration, 1695, 1795, 1895. Nantucket: R.B. Hussey, printer.
- Published in the 20th century
- Tourist's Guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Boston: John F. Murphy, 1902, OL 24158445M
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1904), Letters from an American Farmer, New York: Fox, Duffield & Company, OL 7093278M Reprint of 1782 London ed.
- Sea-Girt Nantucket: a hand-book of historical contemporaneous information for visitors. Nantucket: H.S. Wyer. 1906.
- Flagg (1907). "Nantucket County". Guide to Massachusetts Local History. Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press Co.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 166.
- John Henry Robinson (1918), Guide to Nantucket (3rd ed.)
- Samuel Eliot Morison (1921). "Newburyport and Nantucket". Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3bz6407p.
- Alexander Starbuck (1924), History of Nantucket, Boston: C.E. Goodspeed & Co., OCLC 3813742
- Winston Williams (1977), Nantucket Then and Now, being an updated history and guide, New York: Dodd, Mead, OL 4904260M
- Nathaniel Philbrick (1993). ""Every Wave Is a Fortune": Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon". New England Quarterly. 66 (3): 434–447. doi:10.2307/366005. JSTOR 366005.
- "An Island in Time: An Overview of the NHA's Collections with Accompanying Timeline". Historic Nantucket. 49. Nantucket Historical Association. 2000.
External links[edit]
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photos division. Items related to Nantucket, various dates.
- Europeana. Items related to Nantucket
- Digital Public Library of America. Works related to Nantucket, various dates