Timeline of Nantucket

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

17th century

18th century
Map of the Island of Nantucket, 1782, by Crèvecœur

19th century
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 1839 – Trinity Church built.[18]
  • 1840 – First Baptist Church built.[18]
  • 1846 – Fire.[3]
  • 1848 – Atlantic House hotel in business in Siasconset.[22]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 1897 – Church of St. Mary-Our Lady of the Isle built.[18]

20th century
Nantucket, 1937

21st century

See also

References
  1. Henry Barnard Worth (1901). Nantucket Lands and Landowners. Nantucket Historical Association.
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1937), "Nantucket", Massachusetts: a Guide to its Places and People, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin
  3. 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. R.A. Douglas-Lithgow (1914), Nantucket: a History, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, OCLC 2989159, OL 6568122M
  6. "Nantucket", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
  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. Nantucket Historical Association. 12. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  9. 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. Nantucket Historical Association. 18. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  12. Darby (1832). "Nantucket". In David Brewster (ed.). Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker.
  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. "Digital Historic Newspaper Archive". Nantucket Atheneum. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  15. "Manuscript Collections of the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library". Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  16. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  17. "Nantucket County and Town". Massachusetts Directory. Boston: John Hayward. 1835.
  18. 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. Edouard A. Stackpole (1987). "Early Photography on Nantucket". Historic Nantucket. Nantucket Historical Association. 35. 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. Nantucket Historical Association. 59. 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
Published in the 19th century
  • "Nantucket". Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh. 1822.
  • 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. 12. New York. OCLC 13972268.
  • 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
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